Cradle to Grave, Susan Claudia
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bookfrogWhen the youngest son of the ultra-rich Brome family gets married, things start to go bad for the family. The patriarch has a stroke on the wedding night that leaves him paralyzed and unable to speak, and the rest of the family begins to fall apart.
The oldest son is running for president and his greed for money and power is no longer kept in check by his overbearing father. This guy's wife gives birth to a severely deformed child. One daughter, feeling useless, becomes obsessed with running the house and drives all the servants away. The mother succumbs to a religious mania.
The only family member in the house who seems unscathed is Grace, the daughter who works as her father's secretary.
The trouble is connected not only to the wedding day, but to the bride herself, who hears voices and delights in torturing the old dude who's paralyzed.
This is a weird novel, but it's not very good. It's oddly sexist, and I'm not sure what the point was.
The oldest son is running for president and his greed for money and power is no longer kept in check by his overbearing father. This guy's wife gives birth to a severely deformed child. One daughter, feeling useless, becomes obsessed with running the house and drives all the servants away. The mother succumbs to a religious mania.
The only family member in the house who seems unscathed is Grace, the daughter who works as her father's secretary.
The trouble is connected not only to the wedding day, but to the bride herself, who hears voices and delights in torturing the old dude who's paralyzed.
This is a weird novel, but it's not very good. It's oddly sexist, and I'm not sure what the point was.
