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The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.
The Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Against the Technicolor unreality of Florida's finest tourist attractions, the Drummonds stumble into every illicit activity under the tropical sun-kidnapping, blackmail, gunplay, and black market negotiations, to name a few. But even as the Drummonds' lives spin out of control, Coupland reminds us of their humanity at every turn, hammering out a hilarious masterpiece with the keen eye of a cultural critic and the heart and soul of a gifted storyteller. He tells not only the characters' stories but also the story of our times—thalidomide, AIDS, born-again Christianity, drugs, divorce, the Internet-all bound together with the familiar glue of family love and madness.
As the family spins dangerously out of control, the story unfolds at a lightning-fast pace. With one twist after another, the Drummonds fall apart and come together in the most unexpected ways.
Heartwarming and maddeningly human, the family Coupland creates is like one you've never seen before - with the possible exception of your own.
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Rhonda Gilbert
reviewed All Families Are Psychotic on January 17, 2012
All Families Are Psychotic
I can't get past my love-hate relationship with Douglas Coupland. I haven't read a novel of his that I haven't enjoyed yet the idea of starting a new one fills me with some kind of nameless dread. It's as if I think it's going to be a difficult read (which they never are) or dull (I'm not sure Coupland does dull.) I blame the titles, or the idea of the as yet unread by me Girlfriend in a Coma which I bought approximately ten years ago and still haven't read. One of those things is consistently depriving me of the pleasure of a Douglas Coupland novel.
I really did love this one; a realistic portrait of a dysfunctional family coupled with a farcical plot, in Florida of all places, that is both heart-warming and absurd, extremely funny and thought provoking and made me think of the master of underworld dialogue in a bizarre setting Mr Elmore Leonard.
I couldn't stop reading, the light hearted tone and the slightly surreal turn of events had me flipping pages all day keen to know how Coupland would tie everything together and what would become of this band of merry men as they fight their way through the plot (and Florida.)
He didn't disappoint, the serious undertones and occasional tazering to the head with his human insight don't come across as overtly preachy (definite plus points) and he doesn't deliberately aim to jerk tears either but you still come away feeling lighter yet having thought about life, the universe and everything. In this way he really does capture the common neuroses and foibles in contemporary life (and in this case the interactions in a 21st century family.)
Psychotic they might be but I wish my family were as nice to each other as the Drummonds.
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