Flight

Oh, families!

Helen, the matriarch of the clan, is dead, and her three grown children—Henry, Kate, and Martin—and their spouses and their children are all struggling to adjust to the new world without her as well as trying to deal with the regular problems—too much work, too little work, intimacy issues, lack of intimacy issues, kid difficulties, money troubles, and more—of life. The remaining family gets together just before Christmas...and here begins the barrage of irritating conversations and rude comments and snarky remarks and cruel statements along with the helpful words and loving thoughts and generous assertions and kind declarations that make up the complexity that is family life.

I greatly enjoyed this well-drawn picture of a family.