"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son Bill seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where he...

In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little...

It's the start of the summer when Ginny and William Owen's quiet and peaceful life comes to an abrupt halt. First their oldest daughter Lillian shows up with her two children. Next Lillian's younger brother Stephen arrives with his pregnant wife and their visit is extended indefinitely when Jane is put on mandatory bed rest. Finally, Rachael arrives, the youngest sibling who decided to escape New York City and her single life for the summer.