Cost by Roxana Robinson

When Julia Lambert gathers her family at their beloved Maine summer house, she hopes for peace and reconnection. Instead, old wounds resurface when her son, Jack, arrives in the grip of heroin addiction. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, Julia and her family are forced to confront the limits of love, the complexity of forgiveness, and the cost of survival. In luminous, precise prose, Roxana Robinson captures the raw fragility of human relationships, revealing how even the closest bonds are tested when life’s hardest truths come home.