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It's All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, And 50 Boxes Of Wine (A Memoir) (2011)

by Wade Rouse(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307718719 (ISBN13: 9780307718716)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Crown

review 1: This is a very funny, poignant, and REAL memoir from Wade Rouse, who grew up gay in the Ozarks. It's all about the various holidays as celebrated by his eccentric extended family. Wade and his partner, Gary Evans, now live in Saugatuck, Michigan. I attended a reading he had at Herrick District Library in Holland, Michigan recently. The audience was laughing out loud as Wade read excerpts from all five of his books. I highly recommend this one, or any of his other books!
review 2: At first I wasn't sure what to make of this book. At the beginning the memoir book seemed a 'it's my parents fault in whatever wrong in my life' which is a complete turn off for me. But I continued to read because it started to become funny, in fact hilarious as he told of living with ... morea dysfunctional family (and who doesn't have one of those) and tolerating the quirks of his partner's family writing about a memory of each and every holiday. I was able to relate with what he was going through dealing with my own family and that of my spouse and the humor of it all. It was hard to put the book down because as he told of one holiday to the next it would get even more hilarious. What was also appealing was the fact that he lives in Michigan, the same as I and the places and people he wrote about I understood (and laughed). The only disappointment was a very sad ending but I understood its purpose for being there. less

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