num_pages: 257
description: Meet the Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Marguerite, who is quietly losing her mind. A meditation on family, faith, and mental illness, Genealogy is an operatic story of one family's unraveling and ultimate redemption.
language: English
title: Genealogy
titlecomplete: Genealogy
characters: Ryan Hennart, Bernard Hennart, Samantha Hennart, Louise Lateau, Marguerite Hennart
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 70
places: Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Queens, New York
publisher: Harper Perennial