A poignant novel from a master storyteller, Thank You for All Things raises meaningful questions about family ties and the power of forgiveness. Gifted with sharp minds, eleven-year-old twins Lucy and Milo understand the world around them better than most adults do. Yet one subject is off-limits: their missing father. Whenever Lucy bravely raises the question with her mother, Tess, it gets brushed aside. When Tess’s own father becomes gravely ill, she and her newly “New Age” mother travel with the children to rural Wisconsin to care for him. Lucy hopes that immersing herself in her mother’s past will also unlock clues to her own fragmented history. Their extended stay with a dying, once dangerously volatile man leads to surprising revelations. As bygone secrets are revealed, Lucy learns the truth about her parents --- and the truth about the human capacity for love.