Leslie Garis

No fancy genre-busting writing, but a good straightforward literary family disintegration story. She has a light touch, which kept it from degenerating into some horrorshow of dysfunctional melodrama—at times it seems almost dispassionate. I never got all that involved with the characters, as interesting as they and their stories were. I hear a whooole lot of therapy under the surface... I'm sure the only way to have survived growing up like that was to learn how to keep it all a bit at arm's length.… (mere)