Families and other nonreturnable gifts
You can choose your friends…
Claire LaZebnik

5 Spot
September 1, 2011 / 0446555029
Fiction / Family / Relationships
Amazon

Reviewed by Nicole Merritt

I enjoyed this book because it spoke to me. I think it will speak to a lot of people. Keats Sedlak is a normal woman in a dysfunctional family. Her parents are getting divorced just as she is in the midst of a long term relationship with Tom, her boyfriend. She is constantly being called in to deal with her parents’ eccentricities—everything from trouble with her father’s assistant, to her mother’s dating life. Did I mention her brother? He lives upstairs in his room and stares at his computer screen all day. But now he has to move out, along with their father, because their mother wants her freedom. Keats is the responsible one in the family and is always having to help out. Her sister, who she envies, is detached.

Keats likes her boyfriend’s family because they are “normal”. Now she has to reevaluate her life and come to terms with what she wants.

This is a good read. Not too light and not too heavy. You want to turn the pages and find out where it’s going to take you.