Wreck: A Novel
Oct 2025 · Sold by HarperCollins
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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025
If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry—and relate. Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Nick, and their daughter, Willa, who’s back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky’s widowed father, has moved in.
It all couldn’t be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects their family—and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won’t affect them at all.
With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people—no matter how much you love them—are not always exactly who you want them to be.
A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph.”—Alison Espach, author of The Wedding People
“A delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman’s prose is laugh-out- loud funny. It’s also profound.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs
The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned.
If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry—and relate. Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Nick, and their daughter, Willa, who’s back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky’s widowed father, has moved in.
It all couldn’t be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects their family—and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won’t affect them at all.
With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people—no matter how much you love them—are not always exactly who you want them to be.
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025
A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph.”—Alison Espach, author of The Wedding People
“A delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with...
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Catherine Newman is the author of the novels Sandwich, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and We All Want Impossible Things; the memoirs Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness; the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night; and the bestselling kids’ life-skills books How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times; Real Simple; O, The Oprah Magazine; Cup of Jo; and many other publications. She writes the newsletter Crone Sandwich on Substack and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Catherine Newman is the author of the novels Sandwich, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and We All Want Impossible Things; the memoirs Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness; the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night; and the bestselling kids’ life-skills books How to Be a Pe...
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