Hi! I’m looking for new book recs. I’m looking for books about dysfunctional families or life isn’t going the way the main character wants. Something like This Is Where I Leave you. Bonus if it has overbearing parents or parents struggling with addiction. Preferably something funny, but it doesnt have to be. Thank you!

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    4 days ago

    I haven’t read This is Where I Leave, so don’t know how similar it is, but I really liked Demon Copperhead & it fits your criteria - trials and hardship but with some humor.

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      2 days ago

      Demon Copperhead is a good book! I liked how Barbara described his birth as him in a bag or something. It was very descriptive.

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        2 days ago

        I have an e-book reader, so I looked it up: “Mom had her own version of the day I was born, which I never believed, considering she was passed out for the event. Not that I’m any witness, being a newborn infant plus inside a bag. But I knew Mrs. Peggot’s story. And if you spent even a day in the company of her and my mom, you would know which of those two lotto tickets was going to pay out.”

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          1 day ago

          Something like that, yeah. It’s the part when the neighbor discovers the baby in like a gray sack or something? I remember something about boxing being said. I’ll re-read the chapter.