Big & Lily: A Novel

Description:

A sharply funny, deeply heartfelt novel about two sisters who discover the best way to find yourself is by getting lost.

For her entire life, Bridget Big Ackerman Petty has struggled to hold everything togetherher kids, her husband, her demanding mother, all in dizzying orbit around her. While the kids are grown and her husband is retired, every day still feels like a to-do list she can never quite finish. Why is everything so effortless and easy for her sister Lilya woman blessed with a magnetic personality, a thriving business, and a husband who adores her.

But when Lily discovers her husbands been cheating, her perfect life implodes. Devastated and overwhelmed, she decides to run as far away as possible: to Alaska to lose herself on a hardcore survival trekand shes dragged her reluctant sister Big along.

No cell service, no easy exitsjust grizzlies, outdoor plumbing, and a group of strangers who know how to read a compass. As the sisters navigate freezing rivers, unmarked trails, and more than one near-death experience, the defenses theyve used to protect themselves begin to crumble, and theyre forced to face everything theyve spent decades avoiding: resentment, regret, envy, and the terrifying possibility that the other ones life might not be as easy as it looks.

Big & Lilyis a laugh-out-loud, emotionally rich novel about second acts, sisterhood, and the unexpected ways we find ourselves when were truly lost.