In this novel Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Marylandrevealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacablelogic of the dar... » 

In this novel Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Marylandrevealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacablelogic of the darkest human emotions. The family matriarchhalf Medea halfClytemnestracalls home her three children who take turns narrating thisstory for a final bedside reunion. Theres the firstborn Maury who hasAspergers and whose poetic and offbeat reasoning is both endearing andheartbreaking Candy his sister who takes care of their mother havingrenounced marrying the man she loves and Quinn the wonder boy who left hiswhite trash background to become a successful actor in London. Mother stilllives in the house where she made their lives miserable as children and wheretheir father was murdereda crime for which Maury went to jail as a teenager.Once the family is reassembled in the childhood home the pieces of a somberpuzzle come together over brilliant and witty exchanges showing Irish humor atits best. Mewshaw invites us into the heart of a family dynamic at timesalmost too close for comfort exploding prejudices about murder and familylove. «