Binding: Paperback
Description: From the director of The Spy Who Dumped Me Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet we get to know the Fellers through their check - ins with Julie: their thank - you notes letters of condolence family gossip and good old - fashioned familial passive - aggression. Together their missives - some sardonic others absurd others heartbreaking - weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care. The titular " Nuclear Family" includes among many others: A narcissistic former - child - prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include Fed Exing her silk gowns from Filene's Basement. Their six - year - old son Stuart whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed. Julie's mother a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972.
Title: Nuclear Family A Tragicomic Novel In Letters
Author(s): Fogel Susanna
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250165237
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/18/2017
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction