All Happy Families

An “elegant, searching memoir peels back the glittering layers of privilege” of a New York family and “exposes the soft, complicated, tender core beneath” (Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance).

On a summer weekend, two families assemble for a wedding at a family mansion on the beach in East Hampton.

But as the festivities are readied, the father of the bride suffers a mas...