Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen

Even when Connor gets ill and tells Jack, 'I tell everyone you're the only parent I ever had,' their connection remains inarticulate.(Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Unsentimental and emotionally riveting, this is a portrait of the love between people who are not particularly good at loving.

Domestic disconnection and dissatisfaction are the rule, with marriages and pregnancies occurring more by chance than choice. Goldhagen cuts smoothly between the two men's perspectives, and widens out to include Jack's wife, Mona Connor's wife, Laine and, later, their children. This debut novel from Goldhagen, a celebrity reporter, spirals episodically through two-plus decades of Connor and Jack's fraught fraternity, showing the aftermath of loss in devastatingly efficient snapshots. Goldhagen writes about the struggles of growing up, of relationships, of fame, celebrity and the merging of the inner and outer worlds in a narrative so bullet-train fast, it’s nearly impossible to put down…In Some Other World, Maybe is funny as hell-and deeply profound.Five years after their father dies of a heart attack, Jack and Connor Reed's mother dies of an aneurysm, and Jack, 25, returns to Cleveland to take care of 15-year-old Connor and to work in his late father's corporate law firm. “In Some Other World, Maybe is a beautiful, haunting, insightful novel woven masterfully together. Globe, becoming entwined by friendship, sex, ambition, fame, and tragedy.Ī razor-sharp, darkly comic page-turner, In Some Other World, Maybe sheds light on what it means to grow up in modern America. The next two decades, these unforgettable characters criss-cross the

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Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen