I’m not sure how it happened but now that I’ve finished The Descendants I’m feeling like this is one of my favorites for 2007. It was slow going, particularly slow going since I read a dozen or so pages in Charleston at the end of June and picked it up again on the trip home from BlogHer Con and was just as confused as when I started reading it the first time.
After reading the first dozen pages and feeling like maybe I should just give up because I couldn’t figure out whose voice was speaking or the relationship between the characters, I closed it – read the jacket and started over one more time and then it all clicked.
What a great dysfunctional family. Matt’s frequent mention of blogs as a primary resource for parenting advice was one of the most amusing things I’ve read in ages.