Oh, this book. MODEL HOME falls pretty squarely under the “family saga” novel – similar in scope to, say, THE MIDDLESTEINS or Jonathan Tropper’s THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU. But for a myriad of reasons – its big-heartedness, its seamless multitude of voices, its fierce humor and grace – MODEL HOME ...
The light warmed him immediately. It was like entering a different room. Below him, cocooned in sleeping bags, his family slept peacefully around the fire pit, a ring of question marks, their legs tucked up from the cold. There was something remarkable about seeing them in a circle. The shade in ...