My First Cousin Once Removed

<p> The art of being truly funny is an undervalued one in these angst-ridden times but it is an ability that acclaimed novelist Sarah Payne Stuart has in abundance. Her talents have never been on more glorious display than in <em>My First Cousin Once Removed</em> a memoir--at once hilarious personal and sad--of her extraordinary Boston Brahmin family whose most famous member is the legendary poet Robert Lowell the author's first cousin (once removed). </p>