Summary

Brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest, this novel follow the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce in this novel full of barbed dialogue and hilarious, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics.

Book Details

• Physical Description: 6.1"x9.1"x0.8"; 1.1 lb; 264 pages
• Edition Info: Hardcover; 2008-05-01

Subjects

• Literature & Fiction -- Comic
• Literature & Fiction -- Contemporary
• Literature & Fiction -- Literary
• Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- Canadian -- Short Stories

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