Told with the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb?? this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution?? one that explores adoption?? gay marriage?? and love lost and found.

For years?? Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a quiet domestic life together in Northampton?? Massachusetts. Opposites in many ways?? they have grown together and made their relationship work. But when they learn that Daniel??s twin brother and sister-in-law have been killed in a bombing in Jerusalem?? their lives are suddenly?? utterly transformed.

In dealing with their families and the need to make a decision about who will raise the deceased couple??s two children?? both Matthew and Daniel are