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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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Release Date
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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