This post should actually be titled 'What I Read' since I finished this last night:
I can't remember where I read a review that made me want to read Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan, but just looking at the cover, don't you want to read it?
Maine is about the Kelleher family - Alice and Daniel and their adult children, their sons- and daughters-in-law, their grandchildren. Talk about a dysfunctional family! With all of the craziness of almost every member of the family, none of the characters were so over-the-top that I found it hard to believe. I really felt like I could have been reading one family's true story. There were some funny moments and some surprising moments, but overall it was a fairly depressing depiction of family life. I thought for sure there would be one character that I would identify with or root for, but I could see myself in almost all of them, including the incredibly unlikable ones! Oh, and I still have no idea which character that is supposed to be, lying on the beach in her bikini...
Overall, it was an entertaining book that I looked forward to cuddling up with.
