The Vacationers by Emma Straub
For the Posts, a two-week trip to the island of Mallorca with their
extended family and friends is a celebration: it's Franny and Jim's
thirty-fifth anniversary, and their daughter has graduated from high
school. The sunlit island also promises an escape from the tensions
simmering at home. But all does not go according to plan: secrets come
to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries
resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.
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From the beginning, no one is particularly
thrilled about this sojourn. Initially booked as a 35th wedding
anniversary present, the Post marriage is now in flux. 60 year old Jim
has recently been forced to resign as the editor of a New York Magazine
for his dalliance with a 23 year old intern. His wife Fanny is a writer
"going around the world and writing about what she ate" is deciding
what her next course of action might be. Sylvia, their 18 year old
daughter, is ready to begin Brown University in the fall and wants to
lose her virginity. She is disheartened to see the fighting among her
parents and has recently gone through her own angst due to her girl
/boyfriend's duplicitous actions. 28 year old Bobby is a realtor and
lives in Florida. He is a casualty of the real-estate bubble. He has
been living with his girlfriend Carmen, who is 10 years older, for seven
years without making a commitment. Carmen is an instructor at the Total
Body Power and feels like an outsider, everything she does in order to
please her boyfriend's family "never seemed to be right". Charles is
Fanny's best friend and he and husband Lawrence have been trying to
adopt a baby to complete their family.
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