Adult Realistic fiction. Kids gather in a treehouse during Thanksgiving whilst their parents drink wine (& meditate?) inside. There are falls from the tree, a lost tooth. Spoiler ahead.

[Kit]

. . .a death.

heard the tail end of the author reading an excerpt from this book on NPR sometime between 2014-2018.

I've searched the NPR site and Googlebooks. Hope you guys can help. Thanks.

[Rainbowheart]

Is this book for kids, teens, or adults?

[Kit]

Written for adults I think.

[Rainbowheart]

Reminds me a little of The Ice Storm, but that's probably too old.

I don't think all the details match, either.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Can you rule out Commonwealth by Ann Patchett?

Who dies and how?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Where is it set? Country/region/city.

[Kit]

After taking a quick peek at Commonwealth by Anne Patchett, I'm going to say that's not it. I'm pretty sure the reader on NPR was also the author - - and he was a guy. The book (or at least that scene from the book) was set in a 20th c. America. Point of view - an adult recollecting his childhood (I think). One of the kids of the adult visitors falls out of the tree and dies. The narrator finds a tooth on the ground. Kids outside at night unsupervised whilst the grown ups drink wine and get up to some hippie hijinks indoors.

[Rainbowheart]

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