Anniversary parties, family reunions, and other similar gatherings thrive on a network of little conflicts. Here, conflicts, and joys for that matter, ride underneath the surface of our interactions with others, so secret that only God could know the complexity behind the simplest of hellos. Silent Jubilees touches on these kinds of experiences through the lives of the Hughes family, struggling to commune under unsettling circumstances in Texas, California, and roads in between. Featuring a narrator who becomes obsessed with the conflicts, joys, and family gatherings of the Hughes family,...