what would you do if you werent allowed to your dads funeral. well, perhaps not this but i loved reading what this group of blended family members did do.
there is wit and humor to this book. and lots of thoughtful and thought provoking deeper parts. and of course lots of emotional questions and answers to it. this story was so much more than the act itself. it was about all the bits in between, before and after, it was about the family, love, life and death. i felt all the more closer to it as Sofka writing makes it so familiar and also that she knows how these dynamics work. and after reading up and seeing she married Greek it made it even better to see her write how she did. she knew.

An over-powering Greek dad, various children and a death. I did have to do a double take as I thought I had read this beforehand - but there is a similar set up in Rachel Joyce's new book The Homemade God. But not to worry as this tale has it's own cast of characters; siblings, half siblings, step mothers, mothers, husbands and of course, the Dad.

There is humour and desperation as the family balances their needs with the apparent last wishes of their father and the grief stricken step mother. A wild caper ensues - a jolly good read.

This a great story of a blended family and that contains coming together as one to take matters in their own hand in the most witty sharply funny way...loved the setting, the dialogue and premise great read all round