A review by sksrenninger
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

4.0

I liked the variety of characters and the way they got different and different-sized chunks of the story. Clegg does a really lovely job inhabiting the various characters and making them real. There's not so much a plot here as an untangling of different people and stories, but it's still touching and it pushes you forward. A lot of people have said they didn't really feel for the characters, but sometimes grief is a numbing thing that leaves you light and confused, and I think that is the effect the author was going for, and achieved. Plus at the end, I guarantee you'll want to call your parents, your significant others, your siblings, and that friend you argued with ten years ago, and that is as heavy an emotional effect as any.