A tender, hopeful and laugh-out-loud story of a flawed family that’s also a gem.
The child of alcoholic parents, Christine Macabee should have known better than to marry a man who drank too much. Thankfully, she has her eccentric older sister Louise to lean on.
After a fatal accident alters the family, Christine devises a plan to raise her three children on a steady diet of home cooked meals, inspiring poetry, and the silly addition of an imaginary husband—the singer-songwriter, John Denver. Her plan works, until it doesn’t.
The kids grow up, make mistakes, fall in and out of love, and fall in and out of trouble—some troubles more serious than others. A determined Christine and an irrepressible Louise provide practical and sometimes wacky advice to a younger generation facing lost jobs, homophobia, broken hearts, and yet another iteration of alcoholism. And just when it looks like everything’s back on track, Christine faces a crisis of her own.
