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A Modern Family by Helga Flatland
4.0
There's no such thing as a perfect family as there are no perfect people.
A Modern Family looks at what we think we know, what we show others and what others perceive, and that, ultimately, we never truly know anyone. Distressingly, we don't even know the closest people to us.
When a septuagenarian couple, married for over forty years, decides to divorce, their three adult children take the news quite differently. Their lives and what they thought they knew and experienced come into question. Was it all make-believe? Were their memories reliable? Their parents' divorce makes them look at their own separate lives, their relationships to their partners, to each other.
The characters ask questions regarding freedom, romantic love, societal expectations vs personal freedom - but is there such a thing as "freedom" when we are social animals. As they say, no (wo)man is an island.
This was an interesting novel, easily digestible but also very current and relatable.
A Modern Family looks at what we think we know, what we show others and what others perceive, and that, ultimately, we never truly know anyone. Distressingly, we don't even know the closest people to us.
When a septuagenarian couple, married for over forty years, decides to divorce, their three adult children take the news quite differently. Their lives and what they thought they knew and experienced come into question. Was it all make-believe? Were their memories reliable? Their parents' divorce makes them look at their own separate lives, their relationships to their partners, to each other.
The characters ask questions regarding freedom, romantic love, societal expectations vs personal freedom - but is there such a thing as "freedom" when we are social animals. As they say, no (wo)man is an island.
This was an interesting novel, easily digestible but also very current and relatable.