Adam Haslett was sort of an award season darling 15 years ago for a really good collection of short stories called You are Not a Stranger Here. It’s really quite good. His novels have not landed as successfully, until now. This is such a strong novel. It’s kind of like what if Jonathan Franzen were capable of pathos. This is the story of a kind of middle-class, kind of strange, kind of fucked up family from Boston, by way of England, who as they grow up […]