The Survivors

Alex Schulman

In the wake of their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, more than two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benjamin, always the family's nerve center, perpetually on the lookout for triggers and trapdoors in a volatile home where the children were left to fend for themselves. 

As the years have unfolded, Benjamin has grown increasingly untethered from reality, frozen in place where life carries on around him. And among the brothers a dangerous current now vibrates. What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces?