The Position

In 1975, suburban parents Paul and Roz Mellow write a sex book called "Pleasuring: One Couple's Journey to Fulfillment," which becomes a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later, as the now-dispersed family members argue about whether toreissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children as they confront their own struggles with love, work, sex, death, and the indelible early specter of their erotically charged parents. "The Position" is about sex within the context of a family. Insightful, witty, and heartbreaking, it is a compulsively readable novel about an eternally mystifying subject: how a group of people growing up in one house can be so different from one another.