We’re All in This Together
By Amy Jones
“Count the Parkers among the great families
in literature. We’re All in This Together is a pyrotechnic celebration
of the ‘crazy chaos’ of the modern family that will have you laughing and
weeping with recognition on every page. Amy Jones writes with lightning bolt
prose and an uncanny insight into the joys, grudges, regrets, and sacrifices
that make any family who they are. Behold one of the best young writers in this
country working at the top of her game. I simply could not stop reading this
book.”
–Michael Christie, author of If I Fall,
If I Die
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER is an
entertaining, witty and wise debut novel that puts the “fun” back in
“dysfunctional family” in the tradition of such smart, comic dramas as Kevin
Wilson’s The Family Fang and Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave
You.
A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes
viral, a family goes into meltdown – life is about to get a lot more
complicated for the Parkers. Set over the course of four calamitous days, We’re
All in This Together is a big-hearted and beguiling first novel that follows
the Parkers’ misadventures as catastrophe forces them to finally start acting
like a family.
Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder
Bay have had their share of complications. But when matriarch Kate Parker
miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel — a feat captured
on a video that goes viral – it’s Kate’s family who tumbles into chaos under
the spotlight her internet fame shines upon their private crises. Her prodigal
daughter returns to town. Her 16-year-old granddaughter gets caught up in an
online relationship with a man she has never met. Her husband sifts through a
marriage to search for what sent his wife over the falls. Her adopted son fears
losing the only family he’s ever known. Then there is Kate, who once made a choice
between a life of adventure and one of stability, and now fears her advancing
dementia will rob her of memories from when she was most herself. Entertaining,
witty, and wise, Amy Jones’s irresistible first novel tells a timeless story
about finding your own place in the world, even if that means going home.
Publisher:
McClelland & Stewart, Canada, June 2016
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