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Drinking Closer to Home

Drinking Closer to Home

Jessica Anya Blau
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Blau's second novel revolves around a family in crisis after a mother's debilitating heart attack.

The troubled adult children of Buzzy and Louise come home to visit their parents on their hippie ranch in Santa Barbara, Cal., "where the days are so sunny you'd swear a nuclear reactor had exploded." Sisters Anna and Portia, and brother Emery, recall the events that led them to their restless present. Emery and his partner, Alejandro, tip-toe around the topic of asking a sister to donate eggs so that they can have a child. During their week-long visit everyone must deal with uncomfortable details about their parents' personal lives, as well as the ghosts of the people they once were, wishing that they could leave their childhood wounds behind once and for all.

Blau writes funny, often heartbreaking, and always relatable anecdotes. She aptly describes the family visiting Louise in the hospital: "every day, a moment comes when someone can no longer take sitting in the beeping, stinking room." Blau's lifelike characters are such a joy to get to know that one feels sorry to leave them behind.
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Release
January 18, 2011
ISBN
0061984027
ISBN 13
9780061984020

Drinking Closer to Home

Jessica Anya Blau
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Blau's second novel revolves around a family in crisis after a mother's debilitating heart attack.

The troubled adult children of Buzzy and Louise come home to visit their parents on their hippie ranch in Santa Barbara, Cal., "where the days are so sunny you'd swear a nuclear reactor had exploded." Sisters Anna and Portia, and brother Emery, recall the events that led them to their restless present. Emery and his partner, Alejandro, tip-toe around the topic of asking a sister to donate eggs so that they can have a child. During their week-long visit everyone must deal with uncomfortable details about their parents' personal lives, as well as the ghosts of the people they once were, wishing that they could leave their childhood wounds behind once and for all.

Blau writes funny, often heartbreaking, and always relatable anecdotes. She aptly describes the family visiting Louise in the hospital: "every day, a moment comes when someone can no longer take sitting in the beeping, stinking room." Blau's lifelike characters are such a joy to get to know that one feels sorry to leave them behind.
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Release
January 18, 2011
ISBN
0061984027
ISBN 13
9780061984020

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