The Floodmakers

A weekend at the family beach house turns hilarious and then touching as a wounded sea bird flies into the middle of the Buelle family reunion, wreaking havoc among its already competitive, combative members and raising long-submerged secrets and desires. A poignant family drama from the author of "The Deadwood Beetle" and "The Medusa Tree." "Dressler echo[es] Truman Capote in her gin-and-tonic humor and quirky charm . . . and hilariously poisonous dialogue." (Booklist)