The Summer House was everything the Manhattan house was not. The old home was rustic and secluded, nestled just between the edges of the Adirondack Mountains and Blue Mountain Lake and provided the O’Malleys a respite from their fast-paced city life. Elsa’s father had spent his childhood in wide open spaces of rural Montana untethered by technology or helicopter parents. He had met his wife while they were both students at Columbia Law School and while they had chosen to build their lives in the city, they wanted the rugged life of the great outdoors to influence the character of their children. The summer house was about as rugged a life as they could manage. During the winter months, it was unlikely for the O'Malley clan to be in the same place at the same time. All four of the children played sports, musical instruments, and studied a foreign language with a private tutor. Both Mike and Sheryl worked long hours as attorneys, tag-teamed responsibility for their childre...