A review by emilycc
All Happy Families by Jeanne Mcculloch

3.0

Mcculloch uses her wedding and her father's catastrophic stroke, which occurred in the same week, as a framing device to look at both her parents' marriage and her in-laws'. Her mother and mother-in-law, two very different women, are the most memorable characters, and there are scenes that paint a wonderfully vivid picture of upper-class East Coast life in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. She relies too heavily on repeated quotes to hammer (like hammer) her points home, though, and sometimes there's a weird defensive tone in the way she writes about her family's wealth.

Mixed audio performance; male voices, especially, were not natural sounding.