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The idyllic wine country of Northern California is the setting for Miller’s seventh novel, a background against which one family’s disintegrating dynamics are minutely observed. There’s divorce, a sudden tragic death, adolescent daughters whose lives aren’t being tracked—and a predatory older “friend” to help create extreme emotional and sexual tension. Like all of Miller’s work (The Good Mother, Family Pictures, While I Was Gone, The World Below) the complexities of daily life are shown to be as absorbing as an epic adventure.![]()