Thursday, February 6, 2020

At Weddings and Wakes

At Weddings and Wakes: a Novel / Alice McDermott, 213 p.

Four adult sisters and their stepmother nurse grievances and drink heavily in the Brooklyn apartment where they grew up.  Their relationships are viewed through the eyes of the three young children of  Lucy, one of the sisters.  Sounds boring but, as with everything McDermott, it's fascinating, incisive, funny, melancholy, and familiar. 

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