Family Week

Every year since they met at age four, Milo, Lina, Mac, Avery, and their families have spent a week together in Provincetown, Mass., the “smallest, gayest town in the world.” Now 13, each is experiencing uncertainty about the future: transgender Milo is unsure about leaving home to attend a progressive boarding school; Lina, Milo’s twin, fears their close relationship will change and worries about the letter she sent to Avery confessing her crush; Avery’s fathers are splitting up, her daddy is starting a family with a woman, and neither parent has noticed her shoplifting habit; and Mac, recently diagnosed with a learning disorder, struggles navigating his single mother’s expectations. Despite some awkwardness, their parents’ insistence at going forward with Family Week offers each kid the opportunity to draw comfort from others who understand that “it’s hard having a family that’s different.” The four fluidly shifting perspectives allow the personalities of each child to bounce off one another, creating empathetic interpersonal moments of tension and support in this warm family tale by Moon (Middletown). Characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 8–12. Agent: Molly Ker Hawn, Bent Agency. (Apr.)