Title: Fiction Ruined My Family
Description: "A deeply funny and bittersweet memoir of having grown up in an eccentric family of faded wealth and gentility (think shades of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums) in which the father's failed dreams of being a writer put the family in the poor-house, drove the mother to weepy alcoholism, and provided Jeanne with a highly unusual approach to life--and a wicked sense of humor"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: American Novelists, Homes and haunts, Childhood and youth, Biography, New York Times reviewed, Authors, american, Authors, biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations