G171 Book Review of In the Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
Name of Book: In the land of the living Author: Austin Ratner ISBN: 978-0-316-20609-9 Publisher: Little Brown Type of book: 1950s?-1990s?, relationships, getting closer, traveling, Judaism, father/son relationship, sibling relationship, doctor, college, travel Year it was published: 2013 Summary: The Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent family who love and hate each other-and themselves-- in equal measure. Driven both by grief at his young mother's death and war with his distant, abusive immigrant father, patriarch Isidore almost attains the life of his dreams: he works his way through Harvard and then medical school; he marries a beautiful and even-keeled girl; in his father-in-law, he finds the father he always wanted; and he becomes a father himself. He has talent, but he also has rage, and happiness is not meant to be his for very long. Isidore's sons, Leo and Mack, haunted by the mythic, epic proportions of their father's heroics a...