After loving the author's previous book, I was excited to listen to the audio of this book. However, this one just didn't do it for me. Talk about the dysfunctional families, the secrets, the horrible relationships among the family members but this book had nothing 'interesting'. The Burgess Boys are Jim and Bob. They sort of seem to hate each other and all of them have their own "issues." The relationship between Jim and Bob is obviously the center of the book. They still act like young kids to each other, name calling and pushing each other around seems common. Their sister Susan is a sad-sack with a son who is kind of an outcast. She still lives in the family home-town in Maine unlike her brothers who moved to New York City when they could. The action that moves the story along is when Susan's son Zack gets into some trouble and the brothers "come home" to help out. There is some learning and growing by the end of the book but still nothing as great as Olive Kitteridge.
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