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APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE! requires us into the perversely charmed world of the Flanagans and their son, Collie (who gets the questionable good fortune to be known as after a breed of canine). Coming of age on Martha's Vineyard, he battles to find his place within his wildly wealthy, hyper-articulate, resolutely crazy Irish-Catholic family: a philandering dad, incorrigible brother, pigeon-racing uncle, radical activist mom, and domineering marketing mogul grandfather (accused of being a murderer by Collie's mom). It is a world where chaos is exhilaratingly constant, where money is of no subject. Yet it is a world where the things Collie wants-understanding, balance, a feeling of belonging-cannot be bought for just about any price. Through his travails, we realize what it really means to increase up and also to increase into one's family: finding to find ways to see them anew, to forgive them, and be forgiven subsequently.
In prose that is exciting, humorous, and brilliant throughout, Elizabeth Kelly offers us the dysfunctional-family novel to end all dysfunctional-family books, finding the humor and pathos in her characters' struggles, and showing wonderfully what sort of family's love is often as trying as it is true.
