A New York Times bestseller & winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize & 2012 L.A. Times First Novel Prize The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to an impeccably appropriate young man. The weekend is full of lobster & champagne salt air & practiced bonhomie but long-buried discontent & simmering lust seep through the cracks in the revelry. Winn Van Meter father-of-the-bride has spent his life following the rules of the east coast upper crust but now just shy of his sixtieth birthday he must finally confront his failings his desires & his own humanity.