Read by Mark Bramhall

Here is an exceptionally engaging first novel from a commanding new voice in fiction, author of the award-winning and widely acclaimed story collection The Theory of Light and Matter. The Harding family is teetering on the brink. Elson-once one of Houston's most promising architects, but who never quite lived up to expectations-is recently divorced from his wife of thirty years. Their grown son Richard is still living at home, driving his mother's minivan, working at a local coffee shop, and resisting the career as a writer that beckons him. And when Chloe Harding gets kicked out of her East Coast college for reasons she can't explain to either her parents or her older brother, the Hardings' lives really start to unravel. Chloe returns to Houston, but she may be in greater danger than ever before. Told with piercing insight, taut psychological suspense, and the wisdom of a true master of character, this is a novel about the vagaries of love and family, about betrayal and forgiveness, about the possibility and impossibility of coming home. Part One: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part Two: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part Three: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part Four: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Part Five: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part Six: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Part Seven: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 "In Between Days is a tightly wound novel of suspense, wrapped in the emotional trials of a family teetering on the edge of disaster. Andrew Porter has given us a fresh, modern, literary page-turner, exposing in turn the inner lives of father, mother, brother, and sister. Grown-ups go around behaving like children, while adult children refuse to grow up, until ultimately everyone is shaken from their sheltered lives and into a whole new world." "A family drama spiced with a touch of intrigue…There's a reason writers love dysfunctional families-they are an endless source of dramatic fodder, encompassing just about every flavor of human neurosis and cruelty imaginable. In Between Days, the debut novel of the well-regarded short-story writer Andrew Porter, is a welcome new entry in the canon." "In Between Days immerses readers in a family drama…[Gives] a real and moving sense of how families are composed of so many moments mutually and individually and collectively experienced…The author manages to make us care, to help us see how every move and each decision, however seemingly important or inconsequential, ravels and unravels a family's life, as the fabric nonetheless somehow holds together…Eloquent." "This is Andrew Porter's first novel and, as a portrait of a modern American nuclear family, it is a deft one. He weaves in the full tapestry of contemporary life and its complications: male menopause, desperate housewives, extended adolescence, and race relations in post-9/11 America." "Porter writes with intuitiveness about the complexities of family life and creates indelible characters in the novel…[Told in] stately prose…What makes In Between Days so compelling is the characters. Each is holding something back from the others, carrying a secret, telling only half the truth most of the time. By withholding vital information, Porter is able to develop a sense of unease as thick as Houston smog…As Chloe's frantic parents' distress mounts, the psychological suspense builds." "A deftly paced social psychodrama…A stirring page-turner, part Chekhov and part Hitchcock…[Porter's] descriptions of [Houston] society and geography are spot on-whether imagining the lives of Montrose rent boys or detailing architectural one-upmanship at Harding's fi

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