Saturday, January 23, 2010

Novels on Families

Pete Dexter lists his favorite novels about families.

It can be difficult to say that a novel is about a family when in most cases there is so much more packed into the story. Using a very loose standard, I'd add:

The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Any others?

2 comments:

Jonathan said...

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Michael Wade said...

Good choice!