Its almost always fascinating to look into to lives of strangers. Particularly an entire life, from childhood, well into adulthood. The Visibles is exactly that, a look into multiple peoples lives.

The main character Summer Davis often wonders what her various family members are doing at any given moment. She knows that she is linked to these people on the most finite level, DNA, and feels compelled to be the caretaker in the family for that very reason.

She consistently shirks her own life plans to take care of whomever is the most needy at the time, not finding her way out of that pattern until she is well into adulthood.By this point her dreams of becoming a Geneticist seem all too far out of reach.

Summer slowly discovers the life story of her mysterious, and severely depressed father. She uncovers things about herself in the process that she never could have imagined. She also finds a way to understand the world around her and her place in it.

The story is fascinating, tragic, and altogether very real. An excellent work of American family focused fiction.