Baba's Reviews > All Families are Psychotic

A book with the title 'All families are psychotic', but without a question mark! Soooooooo the family in this book are pretty much, well, psychotic, with the sole island of rationality being 65 year old mother Janet Drummond. Her daughter, Sarah Drummond is about to become the first disabled astronaut in space, but the story we get to read is of the high jinks and shenanigans that her parents and siblings get up to when the family is brought together to support Sarah's great adventure in her last few weeks of training!

Although an alright read, I found it nowhere near as funny as critics and some readers claimed, but saying that, I must admit I am a tough audience when it comes to the interpretation of humour. A few of the characters have Attitude with a capital A - I really liked the portrayal of the 'older' parent characters, done without any age-based stereotyping. Although I consider Coupland a great Canadian writer that everyone should read, this is very far from one of his best. 3 out of 12

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