Families and Other Nonreturnable Gift..., Claire LaZebnik
Families and Other Nonreturnable Gift..., Claire LaZebnik
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Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts

Author: Claire LaZebnik

Narrator: Tessa Auberjonois

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2013

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

A charmingly hilarious and deeply insightful novel about the importance and impossibility of making peace with our family.

Despite her name, Keats Sedlak is the sanest person in her large, nutty family of brilliant eccentrics. Her parents, both brainy academics, are barely capable of looking after themselves, let alone anyone else, and her two uber-intelligent siblings live on their own planets.

At least she can count on one person in her life, her devoted boyfriend Tom. Down-to-earth and loving, he's the one thing that's kept Keats grounded for the last decade. But when Keats's mother makes a surprise announcement, the entire family is sent into a tailspin. For the first time, Keats can't pick up the pieces by herself. Now she must reevaluate everything she's ever assumed about herself and her family--and make the biggest decision of her life.

About Claire LaZebnik

Claire LaZebnik is the author of ten published novels and, with Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel, two works of nonfiction about autism (Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum). She wrote a Modern Love column for the New York Times about having an adolescent son with autism entering the dating scene. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, including Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, and Redbook.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on October 18, 2011

Some novels will leave you with piles of dirty laundry and unwashed dishes as you ignore everything you should be doing to just keep on reading. This is that kind of novel. I'm a huge fan of this author, and this is one of her best books yet, on a par with the novel that first caught my attention "S......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 17, 2024

Review from January 26, 2023: A compulsively readable, family-focused, chick-lit dramedy Cast of Characters Keats Sedlak - The 25-year-old heroine, whose first-person point of view is the voice narrating this story. Keats is of average height and build, with red hair and a pretty face. Keats completed......more

Goodreads review by Pam on November 03, 2011

Keats Sedlak is living a content, comfortable life. She is living in an apartment with her boyfriend of ten years and has a not so challenging job as an office manager. However, she is the oddball in her family, the normal one to say the least. Her brother, Milton, hasn't left their mother's house f......more

Goodreads review by Hélène on March 07, 2016

In a way I loved this book, well written, displaying some very credible characters, showing how people with high intellectual capacities, geniuses even, often suffer, have social difficulties, and that being very intelligent doesn't mean being very happy or wealthy. The family story is really good to......more

Goodreads review by Melodie on December 08, 2014

Keats Sedlak isn't exactly living the dream. But her life is comfortable, undemanding. She has a nice apartment she shares with her boyfriend of ten years and a decent but unexciting job. She believes she has exactly what she wants and no more than she deserves. Family drama abounds and her comfort......more


Quotes

"Claire LaZebnik has done it again. Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts is a gem that's equal parts sugar and spice. LaZebnik will capture you with her winning humor, but she'll keep you with her keen insight. Just make sure that you clear your schedule before you pick it up because you won't be able to put it down."—Jillian Lauren, New York Times­ bestselling author of Some Girls

'Just a great book to read. You can't put it down, because you want to see things work out for Keats and her oddball family."—GenerationGbooks