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This is a story of the Burgess family twins, Bob and Susan Burgess, and their older brother, Jim. An accident happens when they are all children.\u00a0 When the father leaves the children in the car for a few minutes,\u00a0one of them gets behind the wheel pretending to drive.\u00a0\u00a0The car rolls backwards,\u00a0killing the father. This incident\u00a0dramatically affects the entire family. The story\u00a0takes place in a small town in Maine where the children grew up with just their mother to raise them, doing the best she could.<\/p>\n
The two brothers\u00a0escape to NYC as soon as they can.\u00a0\u00a0Both become lawyers. The older brother, Jim, becomes a successful corporate lawyer\u00a0whom the twins idolize. The twin brother, Bob, becomes a Legal Aid attorney who is always belittled by his eldest brother.\u00a0\u00a0Their sister Susan stays behind in Maine. All is well until Susan’s lonely teenage son Zach urgently calls them to say that he has gotten himself into a world of trouble and needs their help. When the brothers return to their childhood home\u00a0in an effort\u00a0to help get their nephew out of this mess,\u00a0the\u00a0long-buried family tensions begin to surface and unravel in unexpected ways that change all of them forever.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed this\u00a0 novel by Elizabeth Strout. She develops and gives insight\u00a0into her characters, and it\u00a0is a very deep look into a family’s struggles and triumphs. I found it a very interesting read with many surprises along the way on how each of these characters deal with the family turmoil as the author exposes the tensions that can fester in a family, especially when they return to their childhood home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a story of the Burgess family twins, Bob and Susan Burgess, and their older brother, Jim. An accident happens when they are all children.\u00a0 When the father leaves the children in the car for a few minutes,\u00a0one of them gets behind the wheel pretending to drive.\u00a0\u00a0The car rolls backwards,\u00a0killing the father. This incident\u00a0dramatically … Continue reading The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}