it starts with 'F'

At Eleanor Evans' 100th birthday party, four generations of her family gather beneath one roof for what may be the last time.

Some are grieving people they lost years ago. Some are hiding addictions, failed marriages, resentment, illness, or secrets they have never said out loud. Some are barely holding themselves together at all.

Told across decades and multiple timelines, It Starts With 'F' follows one deeply imperfect family through love, loss, addiction, divorce, queerness, death, recovery, parenthood, and the quiet moments that somehow change everything.

A college girl with a terminal brain tumor falls in love anyway.

A mother writes letters to her teenage child after their suicide.

Two boys become brothers in the aftermath of tragedy.

An aging matriarch watches her family unravel and love each other despite it.

Every chapter reveals another piece of the same family, the same history, and the same question:

Why do people continue to love when loss is inevitable?

For readers who love character-driven stories, messy families, nonlinear timelines, devastating emotional damage, and books that feel painfully human.