boy meets girl/boy sleeps with other girl

"Carly spends her days at a spa (okay, so she owns the place), she's dating a hunk, and she's surrounded by chocolate. She's living the dream...or is she?"

"Two of today's most popular genres--Romance and Amish fiction--together in one volume."

"Separated by a decade and 200 points on their SAT scores, Jack and Connor Reed have a life in the Cleveland suburbs held together by spit and Chinese takeout." 

Guess which one I just finished reading.

In Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen, the novel opens when Connor is still in high school. His parents have died, so his older brother Jack has moved back home to see Connor through graduation. 

After Connor leaves the state for college, the brothers take different paths (with similar detours) in figuring out how to define their family. 

Jack moves in with Mona. They break up. They marry. Mona gets pregnant. Jack sleeps with Kathy. Jack and Mona divorce. Jack proposes to Kathy. Jack sleeps with his ex, Mona. 

Connor breaks up with college girlfriend. He meets Laine. They get pregnant. Connor and Laine marry. Connor sleeps with college girlfriend. Connor and Laine have another baby. Connor gets sick. 

What can be summarized as "boy meets girl/boy sleeps with other girl" is made more compelling by the alternating points of view of not only the boys (Connor and Jack), but of their girlfriends, wives, and daughters. Dysfunctional, in this case, functions quite well in the novel to read when you've run out of Amish romances.