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My new novel HOUSE ON FIRE is about a
perfectly blended family—Leigh and Pete and their five combined children,
aged ten to twenty. They all get along like a house on—well, you know the
expression. Until one rainy night, when a teenage party followed by a
road accident leaves Leigh’s daughter dead and Pete’s son charged with
vehicular manslaughter. Instantly the fault lines open up and the
foundation of their perfectly blended family crumbles. Novelists have
long plowed fertile fields when it comes to complicated family
situations. Those fields can be even more fertile in a blended family. To
(badly) paraphrase Tolstoy, all blended families are happy and unhappy in
their own way. Here’s a sampling of some of the many novels that have treated
this subject.
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