Monday, September 19, 2022

Five top novels about families far worse than yours

Sally Koslow is the author of the novels Another Side of Paradise; the international bestseller The Late, Lamented Molly Marx; The Widow Waltz; With Friends Like These; and Little Pink Slips. She is also the author of one work of nonfiction, Slouching Toward Adulthood: How to Let Go So Your Kids Can Grow Up. Her books have been published in a dozen countries.

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Koslow's new novel is The Real Mrs. Tobias.

At Lit Hub she tagged five recently-published novels "about people who are far more out of whack than you are," including:
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han explores the impact of generational trauma in a wry political satire about a Korean-American family living in Hawaii, circa 2018. When the Cho’s discover that their law-abiding son Jacob, who is teaching in Seoul, has crossed into the demilitarized zone, they fear for his life. What they don’t know is that it’s the ghost of an ancestor, searching for family left behind in the North, that is driving Jacob’s actions. Ultimately, as the family’s wish for closure takes its grip, the Cho’s must address unresolved mysteries that have haunted the family for decades. One reviewer said it’s impossible to read this debut novel and not be inspired to mend the rifts in your own damaged relationships.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue