Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
siblings family 1970s California

Our Take

Four siblings gather for a party that ends in a house fire — and the novel is both the party and the fifty years of family history that led to it. Reid traces the damage one absent, charismatic father does to four children across different life outcomes. The fire is both literal and the only possible conclusion.

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