Full name: All Families Are Psychotic: A Novel

Author: Douglas Coupland Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781582342153 1582342156

The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.The Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Against the Technicolor unreality of Florida's finest tourist attractions, the Drummonds stumble into every illicit activity under the tropical sun-kidnapping, blackmail, gunplay, and black market negotiations, to name a few. But even as the Drummonds' lives spin out of control, Coupland reminds us of their humanity at every turn, hammering out a hilarious masterpiece with the keen eye of a cultural critic and the heart and soul of a gifted storyteller. He tells not only the characters' stories but also the story of our times--thalidomide, AIDS, born-again Christianity, drugs, divorce, the Internet-all bound together with the familiar glue of family love and madness. Similar books: JPod by Douglas Coupland Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland Blessings by Anna Quindlen Man and Boy by Tony Parsons May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen Gone So Long by Andre Dubus The Trick of It by Michael Frayn We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler Happiness by Will Ferguson Rare Birds by Edward Riche Scars by W. P. Kinsella