The Weight of Sunshine -- Robin Maguire, Paperback

Nina Rhodes is the kind of girl you don't hook up with along the way because she's the kind of girl you might want to end up with. Only Jackson doesn't. And maybe she isn't that girl.

From senior year in college, we follow their ricochet between coasts, careers, and marriages into adulthood's messy, glittering sprawl. A kaleidoscope of perspectives, includes first husbands and wives who add their spicy takes: a juicy portrait of 'what is'. When one impulsive act shifts the axis of their lives, our heroes are officially screwed. Set against the backdrop of affluent California and Manhattan, The Weight of Sunshine explores emotional inheritances-grief, desire and fractured loyalties and how they reverberate across generations. Fresh, spirited, and richly character-driven, this is a story about privilege, pain, reinvention and the one person we can never quite let go.