All Families are Psychotic

Coupland has spent a career infusing the most fun and absurd realities of modern life into his stories of “average Joes” trying to adapt to culture's depleted standards of normalcy and stability. Never defeated, it's fantastic to follow along as his characters—this time, a disparate family oddly reuniting to celebrate their kin's first space-launch—finally give up the ghost and accept their lot as bumbling, mediocre happen-tos, finally daring the world to bring it on. Excellent reading for coming of agers and world-weary loners looking for a blanched ray of hope.