Family and Other Accidents: A Novel Review

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Family and Other Accidents: A Novel Review
Beware. This book is a sleeper. What first appears a simple family drama, two brothers facing life with both parents' dead in a short period of time, is actually a moving account of the nature of loss, the fragility of emotional connections and the importance of family. When their mother dies just five years after their father, Connor Reed, only fifteen, is left in the care of his handsome older brother, Jack. A young man following in his father's footsteps in an Ohio law firm, Jack is unprepared for the responsibility, a decade older than Connor. Connor grows into manhood, Jack his only example, while Jack goes through one girlfriend after another until he meets Mona. After Connor leaves for college, Jack is increasingly anxious in the empty house and invites Mona to move in with him. In such an arbitrary manner, Jack and Connor go their separate ways, seemingly disconnected and unable to express their feelings for one another.
Without extended family for guidance, the two brothers float in and out of each other's lives, Connor married first, with two children, Jack skating on the brittle edge of commitment with Mona. Through her inspired, yet subtle characterization, the author defines the brothers and their respective mates, the failures and triumphs in the world at large, but more significantly through the more treacherous waters of isolation. Jack and Connor are uniquely crippled by their early losses, recognizable in the partners they choose, their inability to reach out for comfort or offer any and their sad fumbling toward meaningful relationships. Difficult times draw the brothers into unfamiliar territory, unexpected moments of revelation that create an unbreakable bond that is inexplicably sustained through the years. Carefully crafted, Goldhagen's characters navigate a success-driven modern world, plagued by the usual disconnections, each managing to bridge the abyss to embrace family and brotherhood. Luan Gaines/ 2006.
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