"When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can't escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it's revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as binary, opposed forces is drilled into Sara and its becomes the perfect framework on which to build her anxiety and increasingly-obsessive thoughts. The year she turns forty, Sara decides to take each member of her family on a one-on-one vacation culminating with a whitewater rafting journey through the Grand Canyon with her younger sister. The only problem: Sara is she's terrified of rafting. As they embark on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure, Sara tows her grief, impostor syndrome, and gallon-size bottle of sunscreen through the Colorado River, resulting in an unlikely epiphany at the ends of the earth."--Back cover.
