The first in series of novellas detailing the Parks' family's bid for survival after their world is both literally and figuratively flipped upside down. Dan, a family man and floor manager at a local manufacturing plant in Jamestown, New York, has recently discovered his wife was cheating on him. It isn't until his wife has been living in a hotel for a week that he discovers he had an illegitimate daughter from before their marriage. All just in time for the annual father and son camping trip. That's when things really heat up for them and everyone else on our little, pale, blue dot.