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Twelve
March 2009
On Sale: March 2, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0446406147
EAN: 9780446406147
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APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE! takes us into the perversely charmed
world of the Flanagans and their son, Collie (who has the
questionable good fortune to be named after a breed of
dog). Coming of age on Martha's Vineyard, he struggles to
find his place within his wildly wealthy, hyper-articulate,
resolutely crazy Irish-Catholic family: a philandering
father, incorrigible brother, pigeon-racing uncle, radical
activist mother, and domineering media mogul grandfather
(accused of being a murderer by Collie's mother). It is a
world where chaos is exhilaratingly constant, where money
is of no object. And yet it is a world where the things
Collie wants-understanding, stability, a sense of belonging-
cannot be bought for any price. Through his travails, we
realize what it really means to grow up and also to grow
into one's family: finding to find ways to see them anew,
to forgive them, and to be forgiven in turn.
In prose that is lively, humorous, and brilliant
throughout, Elizabeth Kelly gives us the dysfunctional-
family novel to end all dysfunctional-family novels,
finding the comedy and pathos in her characters' struggles,
and showing beautifully how a family's love can be as
trying as it is true.
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