| Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters Contributor(s): Fogel, Susanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 1538429586 ISBN-13: 9781538429587 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: MP3 CD Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: 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; and 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fogel, Susanna: - Susanna Fogel is a Rhode Island native and apologist. She writes and directs movies and television, including the film Life Partners and the ABC drama series Chasing Life. She is an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker and Time. |