Hit Lit: Cracking The Code Of The Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers - Plot & Excerpts
—KENNETH BURKE,PHILOSOPHY OF LITERARY FORM In each of our twelve novels, a member of a broken family finds an ingenious way to transcend his or her crazy stress. If you Google “every family is dysfunctional,” you’ll get around 144,000 results in .2 second. Compare that with Googling “every family is healthy,” where a meager 8 hits appear. And in 5 of those 8 cases, the word not precedes every. Okay, so that isn’t exactly what you’d call scientific proof. Still, it supports the conventional wisdom that a lot of us have a lot of experience with fractured families. Families under economic stress, families at emotional war, families splitting apart, families with a missing parent, families dealing with disease, death, infidelity, job stress, or outright life-threatening danger. You name it. Badly destabilized families are featured in each of our twelve bestsellers. Scarlett O’Hara loses a daughter, three husbands, and both parents. Fails to win the heart of the man she thinks she loves while losing the man she realizes belatedly she might have loved.
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