The Summer Place

by Jennifer Weiner

“You’re not supposed to say that,” Dexter called from his spot in the living room, where he and his brother were building a Lego Death Star. “What’s that?” Eli asked. “Homeless. We learned that in school. You’re not supposed to call people that. You’re supposed to say ‘housing insecure.’ ” “Got it,” said Sarah, leaving Eli thinking, not for the first time, how in the end, he’d probably have kids who could instruct him on the seventy reasons he should be driving an electric car but couldn’t find their own state on a map.

Probably true