Nuclear Family

From the director of The Spy Who Dumped Me Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie: their thank-you notes letters of condolence family gossip and good old-fashioned familial passive-aggression.. Together their missives - some sardonic others absurd others heartbreaking - weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care.. The titular Nuclear Family includes among many others:. A narcissistic former-child-prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include FedExing her silk gowns from Filene''s Basement.. Their six-year-old son Stuart whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed.. Julie''s mother a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972.