![]() ![]() His son, Gary, is very notably absent, but Gary’s wife, Twyla-a family outlier, Southern and blonde-is in attendance, with her own family secrets. And so the family begins to assemble: Alex, his daughter, a newly divorced lawyer, arrives in New Orleans from the Chicago suburbs his long-suffering wife, Barbra, tiny and stoic, is already there. “He was an angry man, and he was an ugly man,” the novel begins, “and he was tall, and he was pacing,” and this is how we meet Victor Tuchman in the moments before he collapses. After the brutish family patriarch has a heart attack, the surviving Tuchmans (mostly) gather at his deathbed, each of them struggling to make sense of their past-and come to terms with their present. ![]()
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