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Author:
Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Date:
August 25, 2020
In this award-winning memoir, two sisters return home to reckon with the decline of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and care for their psychologically terrorized father. Winner of the 2019 Stella Prize.
What The Reviewers Say
As sinister as this sounds, Laveau-Harvie tells the story with laugh-out-loud humor, and tremendous heart and insight. She has a poet’s gift for language, a playwright’s sense of drama and a stand-up comic’s talent for timing. But perhaps most remarkable is the generosity of spirit with which she writes about family trauma.
...a beautifully crafted, unblinkingly honest, often darkly funny lament for a loving family that never was. The author’s mother was a cruel and abusive narcissist, her father an enabler and Laveau-Harvie and her younger sister the casualties of their parents’ twisted way of inhabiting the world..
...[a] desolate story of dysfunction.
While Laveau-Harvie’s warmth and good humour came across, her book sounded like misery memoir. But no. Her agile humour – albeit of the gallows variety – transforms it into something quite of its own genre.
