The Rest of Their Lives

Eva Reece is the matriarch of what she thinks of as the new American family, which began to form as early as 1965, when her only son Joel presented the man he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. Forty years later, Eva has lived to see changes in America that no one could have fathomed before personal computers, smart phones, and instantaneous global communications. Widowed in 1998, she now presides over four generations of the Reece family, which is made up of adopted children, her natural children, their children, and with the birth of Tom and Joel's granddaughter, their children's children. This is her story, their story, and the unfolding of the rest of their lives in ways just as unpredictable and momentous as the changes in the rest of America. But it is only the beginning...