Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney has written a funny and compassionate novel titled The Nest. The story of four middle aged siblings and their trust fund. The trust, which was intended by their father to be a modest help has ballooned into serious money, helped by the stock market. All the siblings desperately and secretly need the money, which unfortunately has been used by Leo, the oldest to pay off a waitress he injured while driving drunk. Although all the siblings are fallible, secretive and have all the unlikeable traits most humans do, the lovely thing about this novel is we like them anyway. How does this group of middle-aged New Yorkers work it all out? That is the charm of the novel. Read it and see! ML
