Family for Beginners

2.5 stars.

That extra 0.5 star is purely because the last 1/3rd of the book was a great improvement upon the first 2/3rds. This book was frustrating for a few reasons:

1. Flora spent most of the book without a backbone. It's truly surprising she was able to walk anywhere without one. But well, miracles do happen.

2. Jack is probably the most of oblivious man that ever lived. His obliviousness is second only to Flora's spinelessness. There were multiple times in the first half of the book where his daughter was unforgivably rude to Flora but he still insisted that his daughter liked Flora