Mud and Meltdown

The Mitchell family is falling apart — and they're doing it with impressive efficiency. Dad eats dinner in his car like a fugitive. Mom's pottery keeps exploding off the wheel. The seventeen-year-old is self-medicating with cigarettes and bass-heavy music. The fourteen-year-old has built an entire identity out of Instagram likes. And the twelve-year-old is so quiet the family once drove to school without him. Twice.

When Aunt Ruth dies and leaves her mountain cottage to the family with one impossible condition — one month, all five of them, no phones, no work, no escape — the Mitchells are forced to do the one thing they've been avoiding for years: be in the same room together.

What follows is a month of terrible pottery, spectacular arguments, awkward prayers, and the slow, painful, hilarious discovery that broken families can be remade — if they're willing to sit at the wheel and let the Potter do His work.

A satirical companion to Clay and Spirit, this novel takes every earnest moment and adds a punchline — because sometimes the hardest truths go down easier with a laugh. Same faith. Same family. Same pottery metaphors. Just funnier.

For anyone who has ever been trapped in a car with their family for more than three hours and lived to tell the tale.