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<p><P>The children of a once-brilliant playwright and a struggling actress, the four Haas siblings grew up in chaos&#8212;raised in an environment composed of neglect and glamour in equal measure. When their father dies, they must depend on their intense but fragile bond to remember what it means to be family despite years of anger and hurt. These brothers and sisters are painfully human, sometimes selfish, and almost always making the wrong decisions, but their endearing struggles provide laughter through tears&#8212;something anyone who's ever had a sibling can relate to.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A preoccupied playwright father and a cult-actress mother are the stars of the Haas family in Antalek's well-crafted and cunning debut novel. Set in New York and Los Angeles, and spanning 15 years, the novel is told from the perspective of four siblings close in age and their mother, Marilyn, and plays on the wide-ranging themes of love, loss, abandonment and expectation. Opening with Amy, the youngest and most free-spirited, we learn of the family's constant state of tension and tenuousness. George, the second youngest, is sweet and sentimental; eldest sister Kate, a lawyer, is t

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Author

Robin Antalek

Publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061782169

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (1,198 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13