Bobby is just trying to enjoy two weeks of vacation, postponing acknowledgement of his massive debt and crumbling relationship. For Sylvia, a two-week vacation with her distant older brother, Bobby is all that stands between her and the completely new life she imagines for herself once she hits the Ivy League. Franny is dealing with the realization that she’s soon to be left an empty nester with a man she despises once her youngest daughter, Sylvia, goes off to college in the fall. Because he’s lost his job for sleeping with an intern, he’s also completely fallen from the good graces of his wife, Franny.
The Post family is falling apart, and what better way is there for a family to internally combust (both individually and as a unit) than while marooned on an island together? Jim, the Post family patriarch, has recently lost his job at Gallant Magazine. And by that, I mean that it’s perhaps one of the only books set on an idyllic island that might make you content to spend your vacation time home alone.
The Vacationers, Emma Straub’s latest novel from Riverhead Books, is a beach read you can enjoy while sitting in your doctor’s office waiting room.īy that, I mean that even if there’s not an island paradise glimmering on the horizon of your summer break, this is a novel that transcends what a “beach read” has to be.
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