Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters
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Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters

Written by:
Susanna Fogel
Narrated by:
Allison Hiroto , Michael David Axtell , Bailey Carr , Dara Rosenberg , Stephen Bel Davies , Josh Hurley , Scott Aiello , Lance Rubin , Dan Bittner , Lauren Fortgang , Jessica Almasy , Gabra Zackman , Carol Monda , Ellen Archer , Suzanne Toren , A Full Cast , Richard Ferrone , Jonathan Davis , L.J. Ganser , Oliver Wyman

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July 2017
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5 hours 27 minutes
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From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive-aggression.

Together, their missives—some sardonic, others absurd, others heartbreaking—weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care.

The titular “nuclear family” includes, among many others, a narcissistic former-child-prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife, a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include FedExing her silk gowns from Filene’s Basement; their six-year-old son, Stuart, whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed; and Julie’s mother, a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything, including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972.
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