by Adam Haslett
This is a sad story. It is from different point of views of members of a family. The father is mentally ill and cannot shake it off. He tries over his life but he has to be hospitalized several times and his wife and kids are left to make it through plus take care of him. One of the children inherit...
This book starts with a bang — dropping you into the middle of the action without any information and then leaving you the balance of the book to put the facts together. Kind of like waiting for the other shoe to drop. Not entirely a pleasant feeling, but a compelling device. From the very beginni...
Haslett's latest novel is a compact tale of lives that revolve around the indisputable gravity of mental illness. Narrated in turns by the three children and two parents of an Anglo-American family alternately living in a leafy Boston suburb (which resembles the author's home town of Wellesley), a ...
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