Arrivals and Departures
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 16 jun 2026
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- $199.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters comes a witty and wonderful new novel about one unforgettable family and the journeys we take—across oceans and through heartbreak—to find our way back to love.
The Perkins family has problems. They’re scattered across the globe. Lee, a glamorous reality-TV star, is struggling with her mental health in the spotlight. Regan, her younger sister, has fallen for a romance scammer. Cord, their charming brother, is one drink away from losing it all. And their mother, Charlotte, still longs for the love she let slip away a decade ago, a lover who sailed off with her heart to a remote island in Greece.
When Regan disappears, Lee flies first-class to Athens to save her family—again. There, against the glittering Mediterranean and the shadow of the Acropolis, Lee contends with emotional nieces, relentless paparazzi, and her own fragile heart. Lee is desperately searching—for her sister, and for the hope and joy she thought was gone forever.
Across continents and crises, each member of the Perkins family must face the same question: is it ever too late to choose love?
Featuring characters from Ward’s bestselling novel The Jetsetters, Arrivals and Departures is brimming with humor, honesty, and hope. It’s the story of a family finding the courage to say the only words that can save us—I love you.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ward revisits the dysfunctional Perkins family of her 2020 novel, The Jetsetters, with a charming romp through a new set of crises. Regan, now divorced, has moved with her two teen daughters from the U.S. to Athens, Greece, and she disappears after going to meet her online boyfriend for the first time in person. The girls contact their grandmother, Charlotte, in Georgia, and she dispatches Regan's older sister, Lee, a former reality television star dealing with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation, to help out. Meanwhile, Regan and Lee's middle sibling, Cord, fights alcoholism and phone addiction while reeling from a likely breakup with his sweet-natured fiancé, Giovanni. Ward gives each family member a turn in the spotlight, darting among their points of view from one crisp cliffhanger to the next, pausing occasionally to reveal long-held family secrets or dispense pop psychology insights into the Perkins' bad behavior. The novel takes a breezy approach to the characters' mental health problems, which sometimes rubs the wrong way but for the most part humorously reflects their cattiness toward one another (when the medicated Lee tells Charlotte it's time for her pills, Charlotte haughtily says, "mine aren't for my brain"). It's a bouncy ride through a well-meaning family's calamities.
