Hi! I’m looking for new book recs. I’m looking for books about dysfunctional families or life isn’t going the way the main character wants. Something like This Is Where I Leave you. Bonus if it has overbearing parents or parents struggling with addiction. Preferably something funny, but it doesnt have to be. Thank you!
Maybe something like The glass castle from Jeannette Walls.
I read these books as a kid: A series of unfortunate events
Count Olaf: “Going my way?”
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Catch 22
Probably a little different than what you’re describing but I’m reading blood meridian right now and it’s very good. It’s about a 14-year-old runaway in 1850s America where everything is fucked. He gets in increasingly desperate and violent situations to try and survive
My journal
Slaughterhouse-Five
Great Expectations
Take a look at the works of David Sedaris. Those fit the description, and are funny.
I was surprised how heart wrenching Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was. Growing up I heard it was about meatpacking plants in Chicago. Technically correct, but very much a tale of things not going well. Enjoyed the journey despite the sadness!
Like Wind Against Rock by Nancy Kim
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis
Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star
Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
A wolf at the table
Job
The Death of Bunny Munro
Appearantly they are doing a tv series based on the book now.
Naive Super