The Last Romantics A Novel

Tara Conklin, Cassandra Campbell

eAudio - 2019

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The House Girl comes a novel about our most precious and dangerous attachment: family.In the spring of 1981, the young Skinner siblings—fierce Renee, dreamy Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona—lose their father to a heart attack and their mother to a paralyzing depression, events that thrust them into a period they will later call "the Pause." Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that stretches before them, the siblings navigate the dangers and resentments of the Pause to emerge fiercely loyal and deeply connected. Two decades later, the Skinners find themselves again confronted with a family crisis that tests the strength of these bon...ds and forces them to question the life choices they've made and what, exactly, they will do for love.Narrated nearly a century later by the youngest sibling, the renowned poet Fiona Skinner, The Last... more