![]() ![]() ![]() Rose, a struggling perfectionist, had a budding career as a stage actress. And there’s Josephine, the controlling, manipulative matriarch.īut there’s a family member on the periphery of this portrait that the rest are unable to think-let alone talk-about. Their father, Douglas, is an alcoholic programmer who’d prefer to hide behind office doors instead of showing his face at the dinner table. Violet, his teenaged sister, would rather get high with her friends than spend another minute at home. There’s William, the 12-year-old autistic (and highly intelligent) son, who spends his days being homeschooled. ![]() Mother, Mother introduces the Hurst family, living in upstate New York. Now, she is making her fiction debut, and it is just as captivating as her memoirs. Is there anything that Koren Zailckas can’t write? The young author first crashed onto the literary scene with her iconic best-selling memoir, Smashed, which chronicled her years of teenage alcoholism. ![]()
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