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A Perfectly Good Family

By: Lionel Shriver
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.

Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.

©2009 Lionel Shriver (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction Fiction
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Since the English pronounce “potato” exactly the same way Americans do, I couldn’t understand why the reader pronounced it “potaahto” so that it rhymed with the English pronunciation of “tomato”. I found this distracting as the would arouse so frequently- another mystery.
Was this mispronunciation symbolic of something?
Otherwise a great book with an awesome ending.

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