Like Normal People

A Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of the Washington Post''s best books of the year LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE charts the lives of three richly textured characters whose irreducible idiosyncrasies griefs longings and loves will surely expand our sense of what it means to be like normal people (Chicago Tribune). The story of this family revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena who is forty-eight years old but mentally locked in childhood. Following Lena''s escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece and her widowed mother''s search for them Karen Bender moves deftly between past and present through three entire lifetimes in a single day as each character searches for love and acceptance in a world where normalcy is elusive. Poignantly and brilliantly portrayed (TimeOut New York) LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE is a hilarious heartbreaking unforgettable family drama that resonates long after the last page is turned.