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I love the way J. Courtney Sullivan writes family dramas. She highlights both small, petty and deep, lasting offenses with the same honesty and masterful skill. She clearly understands all of the many ways your family can drive you crazy, but I love that her family dramas are never bleak. Sullivan helps you laugh about the absurdities of sisters and mothers and in-laws while also showing how important those family relationships really are.
A lot of readers have said they disliked all of the characters in this book, and while I definitely can see why that would be, I couldn’t bring myself to hate any of them. In fact, I couldn’t get enough of grandmother Alice and her embarrassing crush on the young Catholic priest or Annmarie’s eventual melt down during the “paprika” salad lunch. In their own ways, all of the Kellehers gripped my heart, and I think that was probably Sullivan’s intention all along.
A lot of readers have said they disliked all of the characters in this book, and while I definitely can see why that would be, I couldn’t bring myself to hate any of them. In fact, I couldn’t get enough of grandmother Alice and her embarrassing crush on the young Catholic priest or Annmarie’s eventual melt down during the “paprika” salad lunch. In their own ways, all of the Kellehers gripped my heart, and I think that was probably Sullivan’s intention all along.