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Review title: Gothic Overload
Product review: Upon pressing the book into my hands, my friend said it was gothic. And using this definition - "characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque" - that sums up the book neatly.There's about 80 years' worth of family gothic before there's a glimmer of sunshine in the family's otherwise mostly-miserable existence. There are some nice literary passages - fleeting, I'd say - but otherwise it is like driving by a bad accident in s-l-o-w-m-o-t-i-o-n and craning your head to look in spite of yourself. Let me list some of the tragedies: emotional abuse, verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, shunning, pathological promiscuity ...Although the author is a skillful writer, I don't think the ratio of the book's redeeming value to unrelenting misery warrants a recommendation.
