Wednesday, March 13, 2019

5 Must -Read Novels About Blended Families


   
 
March 12, 2019
By
Bonnie Kistler

 

5 Must-Read Novels About Blended Families
     
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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