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This was captivating - bittersweet and poignant yet so funny all at the same time.

@CBee created this great post ! We are all going through a lot right now and a lot of it is unknown! If you want to talk or just need to know you‘re not alone use the #allinthistogether ! Together we will be stronger ! Spread the love ❤️

Book club day 🎉

Signs of summer. I‘ve bought more books 🤦🏻‍♀️ next week I‘m going to a @PenguinRandomCa book club in Toronto for We‘re all in this Together that I read a while ago and LOVED ( from the library) so I bought it ( book signing) and Amy Jones‘ new one to read RIGHT AWAY 😱

I'm enjoying this dysfunctional family novel. So far, it's pretty fun.

I think almost every family is dysfunctional in its own way and telling these stories is what literature is for. So even though I think almost any book could work here, I chose this novel that I read this past summer and really enjoyed for its quirky portrayal of a dysfunctional family that is drawn back together and thrown into disarray when the matriarch goes over the local waterfall in a barrel. #photoadaynov16

The Parker family is one hot mess. But aren't all families in at least one way or another? Jones does a wonderful job with tensions and frictions in family, the things that go unsaid and bubble just below the surface, and the different ways people are never fully known to others. Kind sensitivity shown in charting Kate's - the Parker family matriarch - path

Random fact about me: pink and green is a colour combination I just don't enjoy (when Bee was a baby, I never bought anything in these colours. Apologies Lilly Pulitzer!) However, it does make for a fun #bookphotochallenge for #augustofpages. Sadly, I only seem to have a few pink books, but bonus points for cat photobomb?

Book Mail!!! Ordered these from Canada as it didn't look like any are available in the USA yet. The exchange rate is so good right now, that it paid for the shipping. O Canada!

My first ever stats! Not too shabby, considering two exams and a solo road trip with my 9 year old daughter (which meant I did all the driving). Looking forward to seeing what August offers.

All families are crazy in their own ways. Some are crazy on the internet. A funny and poignant story about a family brought together by in fighting, viral videos, dementia, and sharks.

I cannot recommend this book enough! A totally dysfunctional family trying to come to grips with an unspoken diagnosis, everyone struggling independently with their own issues, everyone making ill founded assumptions causing more strife. I can not believe it is not real

Very enjoyable dysfunctional family tale. Told from the perspective of several characters, it illustrates how how even our closest family members may not truly understand us, and how one person's actions can appear completely different to another person. Minor quibbles but overall a wonderful story.

"If this were a movie..." A recurring theme Jones uses throughout the book, and one I'm quite enjoying. So, to use that motif: if this were a movie, they couldn't possibly stage a better view.

Late night reading on Canada Day eve with can lit, I couldn't have planned this better if I tried

After the darkness of The Girls, it was time for something a little lighter.

Amy Jones takes family drama to a whole new level. Family chronicles are never my go-to reads, but this one was amazing. This novel is funny, angering and heartbreaking. It was family. In all it's batshit glory.

http://www.ashley.dzama.ca/review-were-all-in-this-together/

In all this time, it has never occurred to him that they were lucky - or how someone ... might look at them and see not dysfunction but beautiful, crazy chaos.

I love this line. Perfectly describes how we fail to view our own situation and family. It also perfectly describes this novel.

"It's actually Thunder Bay," Finn says. "Completely different bay." They all stare at her blankly. To them, "up north" means "cottage country," and anything beyond that is like another planet.

- Being born and raised on that other planet, I'm hooked. So excited for more!

I get drawn in by covers, so obviously this one caught my eye. An ARC to read; hoping it's as good as the cover!