A good family : a novel
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- ISBN: 9781250059284 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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422 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
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Subject: | Families -- Fiction Dysfunctional families -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Sitka.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Kitimat Public Library | Fas (Text) | 32665002018226 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Salt Spring Island Public Library | FIC FAS (Text) | 33123009469108 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | FAS (Text) | 33923005546837 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
"Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois. Henry is the once-magical father, whose fear of aging and endangered career lead him to the nightclubs of Chicago's Viagra Triangle. His wife Julie struggles to reclaim her life with a bottle of Zoloft and dreams of her youthful independence. Charlie, the golden-boy son, leaves the lucrative job his father arranged to serve in Afghanistan--and returns angry, damaged and uncertain of his place in the world. And Barkley, the bumbling youngest, is an aspiring writer of geeky science fiction stories now interviewing for his first job at a forbidding Catholic high school. When Henry's health abruptly declines, he tries to return to the home and the life he had dominated. But his family, once totally dependent on his love, physical strength, and income, no longer needs him. As Julie, Charlie, and Barkley begin to find their ways forward, Henry tries desperately to bring them back together. In the end, each one will arrive at a new understanding of what family can--and cannot--be."--