We Are the Brennans: A Novel

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** In the vein of Mary Beth Keanes Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Langes We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shameand the redemptive power of lovein an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But its not easy. She deserted them alland her high school sweetheartfive years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fianc. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her familys pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secretssecrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakesand ultimately find a way forward, together.