Normal Family (Normal Family Trilogy #1) (Paperback)
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Other Books in Series
This is book number 1 in the Normal Family Trilogy series.
Description
Normal Family is a hilarious coming-of-age novel about a precocious boy's four frustrating holidays with his eccentric family.
Over the course of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Independence Day, during the tumultuous 1960s, Henry Pendergast struggles to understand his once-famous author (and now alcoholic) grandfather George, who sobers up just in time to help Henry come to terms with the mystery surrounding his mother's mental illness.
Henry perseveres through a landmine of dysfunctional siblings, parents, and stepfamily, all the time searching for a normal family not to be found. In the end, he discovers the hidden truth about his family and suffers a heartbreaking loss in the process.
With tender moments surrounded by hilarity, Normal Family is the perfect read for the holidays or any other time when a good laugh is needed.
About the Author
Don Trowden is the pen name for fiction written by Caleb Mason, who is the author of Normal Family (2012), No One Ran to the Altar (2016), All the Lies We Live (2018), Young Again (2022), co-authored with Valerie McKee, and The Isles of Shoals Remembered (1992). His most recent novel is Thickafog (2025).
Praise For…
"The book has tender moments surrounded by hilarity, along with some wonderful one-liners: "Albert (his brother) had drolly remarked our mother was someone who preferred to burn her bridges before she got on them"; "Grandpa swerved up the lawn looking like Frankenstein in search of unsuspecting villagers."
-- Ohio Record Courier
"I loved Normal Family. It is tragi-comic at times which is not always easy to do. And while I was reading it those around me asked what book I was reading because of the range of emotions it incited in me.
-- Amazon
