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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
"After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and heart down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home"-- Provided by publisher

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the social novel is alive again submitted by grubbg on June 14, 2015, 2:01pm Jonathan Franzen is one of the only novelists these days writing social novels: novels that center on a social problem. We need this kind of literature, now more than ever. And he's doing it right. A fixating book, full of rich characters and the vexing paradoxes of contemporary life.

Funny submitted by EJZ on July 23, 2018, 8:45pm One of the funniest novels I've read in a long time. An American family confronts the deteriorating health of their aged parents, told from multiple points of view. I loved it, beginning to end.

You'll start to see yourself and your family in the characters, and not necessarily in a good way.

Read it! submitted by Dettmarb on July 23, 2023, 11:02pm One of my favorite contemporary authors.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
Year Published: 2021
Description: 566 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1250824028 (softcover)
9781250824028

SUBJECTS
Married women -- Fiction.
Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
Parent and adult child -- Fiction.
Middle West -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.