The family’s challenges continue with Nick’s illnesses requiring expensive and demanding medical care, Tig and Iano working low-paying jobs, Willa attempting to find freelance work, struggles over the family’s health insurance, and caring for Dusty. She enlists the help of a local historical society to find out if she can apply for restoration grants for the historic house. Willa quickly finds that her aunt’s house is beginning to deteriorate and that repairs will be too expensive for the family’s meager finances. He soon returns to Boston, leaving Dusty to be cared for by Willa and Tig. Zeke brings Dusty from Boston to Vineland and lives with his parents temporarily. As they settle in, Willa and Iano are shocked by the news that their son Zeke’s partner, Helene, has committed suicide just after giving birth to their son Aldus (“Dusty”). Their household also consists of Iano’s elderly disabled father, Nick, and their 26-year-old daughter, Tig, who has been living with them since returning from a stint living in Cuba. They move into a house Willa inherited from a recently deceased aunt in Vineland, New Jersey, about a 40-minute drive from Philadelphia. The university where her husband, Iano, was a tenured college professor also shuts down, forcing the couple to move from Virginia to New Jersey so he can teach at a university in Philadelphia. Willa Knox is a middle-aged magazine editor whose publication recently went out of business.
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