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If there could be an award for an over-dramatized plot with little redeeming substance, this book would win hands down! This book was not at all what I was expecting - it turned out to be an excruciating account of a troubled year in the life of the author's family and the resulting catastrophes. Yes, it's admittable that their year was full of unfortunate and dispairing experiences, but could Milhone ever take a look on the bright side of any of it?
The story drowns in dysfunctional family episodes, all of course, told from the narrator's point of view. His father was a workaholic, his mother was borderline crazy. Despite his upbringing, Milhone appeared to be the best father he could be to his two sons, something in which he received absolutely no support from his just as crazy wife and something which he constantly second guesses and doubts his every decision and action. His wife, Rose, was one annoying character - so negative, weak, bumbling and critical; all from a woman who refused to leave her own bedroom. I struggled to grasp a strand of sympathy for this woman and failed miserably. Get therapy, I pled, and get on with the story!