In the summer of 1976, during their annual vacation to Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen’s diagnosis with Turner's syndrome—a genetic condition that has kept her from maturing physically — her family is still dealing with the fallout. The Condition explores the power of family mythologies—the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind parents and children and each other.
“The ailment at the center of this remarkable novel is the human condition itself. Jennifer Haigh has written a sprawling, emotionally gripping account of one family’s troubled history, enlivened by her formidable intelligence and deep insight into her characters’ hearts and minds”
— Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers