The Great Perhaps A Novel [Paperback]

The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is forced to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.The wisest, most humane and transcendent novel on the contemporary family sinceMeno masterfully, and meaningfully, conflates the fantastic with the everyday. . . . Tender, funny, spooky, and gripping.A darkly funny, lyrical, and shrewdly observant chronicle of a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown.Meno is thinking hard about why the world is the way it is and about where hope for change might reasonably lie.This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.Wendy Smith,