After a quartet of 4-year-olds built a block tower together at a Drag Queen Story Hour during Provincetown\u2019s Family Week, their parents\u2014an interracial, interfaith (Asian\/white and Jewish) lesbian couple, an interracial, interfaith (Black\/white and Jewish) gay couple, and a single lesbian mother (presumed white)\u2014all decided to vacation together henceforth. But this Family Week, they\u2019re bringing more emotional baggage than luggage. Milo (who\u2019s academically gifted as well as trans) and his twin sister, Lina, are struggling with Milo\u2019s upcoming departure for a fancy boarding school. Avery is heartbroken over her fathers\u2019 impending divorce and the forthcoming baby sibling (Daddy\u2019s new female partner is pregnant). Meanwhile, Mac, who\u2019s been attending summer school to avoid repeating seventh grade, is just trying to figure out what he\u2019s good at, especially in comparison to the gifted and people-pleasing Milo. With each weekday forming its own chapter, this short book packs in a lot and relies on overwhelmingly long sentences; as a result, the characters, conflicts, and emotions end up feeling rushed and underexplored. The breathless pace also means that each family feels more like a rough sketch rather than fully fleshed-out individuals. Milo and Lina are biracial (Asian and white), Avery\u2019s biracial (Black and white), and Mac presents white.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a quartet of 4-year-olds built a block tower together at a Drag Queen Story Hour during Provincetown\u2019s Family Week, their parents\u2014an interracial, interfaith (Asian\/white and Jewish) lesbian couple, an interracial, interfaith (Black\/white and Jewish) gay couple, and a single lesbian mother (presumed white)\u2014all decided to vacation together henceforth. But this Family Week, they\u2019re bringing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}