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Did You Ever Have a Family Paperback – May 17, 2016

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Did You Ever Have a Family

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press; Reprint edition (May 17, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1476798184
ISBN-13: 978-1476798189
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 530 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3389 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Domestic Life
- #4107 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Family Saga
- #5452 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Family Life

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sedgwick

I don't get all the hype.

September 23, 2015

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Sometimes you read a book and wonder if you're reading something completely different from everybody else.

This book has obviously gotten glowing reviews and been nominated for two of the Big Literary Awards. I finished it last night, and I just don't see what all the hype is about. Clegg goes for pages without a paragraph break, there's not a single line of dialogue in the whole book, there are so many narrators it's almost impossible to keep them straight, and -- to be a nitpicky English-major type -- he constantly follows semicolons with conjunctions. A lot of the books I'm reading lately make me wonder if copyeditors still exist.

The plot definitely pulls you along, but every time it gets good, Clegg switches to a different narrator. The ultimate reveal is disappointing. The writing is full of obvious similes -- for example, someone who gets angry a lot looks "possessed, like a zombie demon." Yes, I know that demons are the things that possess people, and I never want to hear the word "zombie" again, but maybe that's just me.

I didn't hate it, and I didn't put it down and walk away, but I definitely didn't LOVE it like everybody else. I found myself wondering if it would get the attention it's getting if it were written by a woman, or by someone who's not already a superstar in the literary world.

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Where's the ending

March 31, 2017

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OH NO! What about GEORGE KING of Atlanta, Georgia? I just cannot, I repeat CANNOT believe the book ended. THE BOOK, mind you, not THE STORY!! Oh my gosh.....to have experienced all the tragically induced emotions this story caused me only to end in LIMBO really p's me off. Because I could already see the HAPPY EVER AFTER ENDING VIA GEORGE KING FROM ATLANTA , GEORGIA....Great story , no ending.

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Joseph and Lynda Rousseau

Wonderful!

October 16, 2016

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Wow!! This is a beautiful and meandering tale of grief, blame, guilt and the lives changed forever by a terrible accident on the eve of a wedding in a small town. The story unfolds through the eyes and heartbreak of various characters, and at various times in the chronology, starting with the morning of the disaster, but jumping to the time before and after. June's daughter Lolly, her finace Will, her ex-husband and her boyfriend Luke are all staying at her home on the eve of Lolly's wedding, when the house explodes killing everyone inside and June is left, having been out of the house at the time, with everyone in her life gone. After the funerals she disappears and the only person with a family member who is still in town is Lydia, the town outcast, as she tries to process her grief alone. These two tell the majority of the tale though we meet others, along the journey, damaged by life, who bring their perspective and bring the story together. It's a skillfully and gently woven tale that nevertheless will smack you in the face with the power and grief of loss. Once picked up and committed to, you won't want to put it down and you'll be thinking of these characters for days afterwards. I read a few pages at a time but found it hard to follow in this manner, so about four short chapters in, I just started reading and didn't stop until I finished.

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Freds Mom

Books like this one come along only a few times in ...

April 30, 2016

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Books like this one come along only a few times in a reader's lifetime. I'd rather pick my own word to describe its mood. I won't write much about this book because I don't want to give anything away, except to say I thoroughly enjoyed the story and totally did not see the ending coming. I only wish I could go back and read this for the first time again. Clegg has won my heart with his previous book and this one and he's made me hope daily that he's at work on another book. I wish he'd call me when he's ready to publish something again. He's that good.

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Lynda

Loved this book!

November 25, 2016

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Recently I've started four books, all different genres. For some reason I've been struggling to get past the first few chapters of each one...until this one. I started this book and was immediately hooked. It is beautifully written, coloring each character so precisely that you feel almost like a voyeur knowing more than you rightfully should. There were lines that touched me so deeply I was compelled to underline them, not a common habit of mine when reading fiction. If you love good stories and well developed characters, some deep and touching emotions and a bit of universal truths thrown in, give this book a read. I haven't read any if its reviews but intend to do so now to see if others were as touched by it as I was.

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Carol Bakker

Redemption

August 20, 2017

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This story starts in tragedy and mysteriously tells its story through the voices of the characters involved. You will find yourself at first wondering who is speaking now? How did I get to this voice? Who is this person? But as you move from person to person the story begins to weave a pattern of understanding and redemption out of the threads of tragedy and grief. Unique in writing style, this is a book I won't soon forget.

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tpmck

If you pick this book up and it doesn't grab ...

October 14, 2015

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If you pick this book up and it doesn't grab you in the first twenty pages, trust me, stick with it! Clegg's characters are complex, developed human beings with pasts. Each character has so many links to others as humans do. This book is so very human. It records the minor little things that Clegg recognizes as the small matters that make up one's life.

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billofwrites

"death" and the family...james agee 2015

November 17, 2015

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this exceptionally powerful (first?) novel -- long-listed for this year's man booker prize -- grabs you from page one with a scene of devastating destruction for a family...the rest of the book is told from the shifting / conflicting POV's of the survivors...a kind of American "rashomon" in the wake of tragic loss...the attempts to deny...to cope....to move on....the intense physical and emotional fallout.

the writing is alternately biting and poignant...always tight, never overdone, often beautiful...(a real gift here for the just-right metaphor)...the observations are sharp and telling...the revelations both surprising and "true." the dialogue is mostly plain-spoken but with unstuffy eloquence all its own...each character is both strong and in some kind of denial on the various roads to "moving on."..."getting over it, getting past it"...coming to terms with it...a writer to savor now and keep an eye on,,,i'll read whatever this guy does next.

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MaryAnn

Deep with emotion

Fragmented glimpses of family and friends weaves tragedy into a haunting web of life. Profoundly deep and troubling, this book was hard to keep reading but hard to put down.

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Marianne

Tides wrong to say I enjoyed this book it was misery from beginning to end. But if you call being mesmorized

from the beginning enjoying,I certainly did. .what an interwoven history those people had. It was written to make the date immaterial..

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Marcus

Worth a read!!

This novel is very sad, but has meaning. I felt the love, loss and pain in this story. When a book hits you hard.. You know it's a good read!

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George in Flourtown

Three Stars

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Carolyn Plath

Plain, beautiful, and painful

Clegg lets us see the people of his novel just as we see the people in our lives ~ incompletely at first, pieced together, imperfect and flawless.Read more

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SWA

Five Stars

I loved this book. Beautifully written.

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Wanderlust

Amazing story of Heartbreak, loss and Healing.

Amazing story. You are thrown into the tragedy that occurred in a small town, surrounded by much speculation as if you are an outsider, just passing along.Read more

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Great characters

It's a beautiful morning in June and the day of Lolly and Will's wedding. Except that in the small hours a gas leak leads to an explosion and the four people sleeping in the...Read more

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Interest read!

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Must Read

Bill Cleve has crafted a book from so many points of view, its mind boggling. I was taken in by these all too human characters and feel privileged to have read this fine word.Read more

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