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Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel In Letters
Holt Paperbacks
ISBN13:
9781250165237
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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 FedExing 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.
- | Author: Susanna Fogel
- | Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
- | Publication Date: Jul 18, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1250165237
- | ISBN-13: 9781250165237
- Author:
- Susanna Fogel
- Publisher:
- Holt Paperbacks
- Publication Date:
- Jul 18, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1250165237
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250165237