After their mama dies, Jack and Birdie find themselves without a place to call home. And when Mama’s two brothers each try to provide one - first sweet Uncle Carl, then gruff Uncle Patrick - the results are funny, tender and tragic.

They’re also somehow … spectacular.

J. M. M. Nuanez’s debut novel depicts an unlikely family caught in a situation none of them would have chosen and the beautiful ways in which they finally come to understand one another.