The Brothers K

The saga of the Chance family, Hugh and Laura and their 6 offspring, battling and torn apart by the family's two loves: Baseball and Religion. And because it's an American novel set in the 60/70ies, at some point the Vietnam war makes an important appearance. The characters are vivid and alluring, slightly too wordsmart, the writing is funny, sometimes a little bit too cruel. I was all ready to love this a lot, but somewhere in the middle it becomes a bit too meandering, too segmented. And I wasn't really a fan of the reveal about the mother in the end either, but by that point I was very invested in everyone's happiness again.