Fulfillment : A Sunday Times Summer Reads Pick by Lee Cole

You ever wake up and wonder how you got to a place?

Emmett and Joel are half-brothers, but they couldn't be more different: one a single, blue collar warehouse worker, the other a married academic and published writer.

For the first time in years, the two of them are back together in the family home, in Kentucky, just as Joel's wife, Alice, starts to yearn for a different kind of life.