JoAnn G. (bookwoman28) reviewed on 1/15/2007 + 166 more book reviews

Charismatic therapist Anton Furey is dying, and the tribe he heads - his five chilren, his wife's three, and their uniting child, Alice - has returned to Chardin, the farm where they grew up and played out Anton's vision of communal living. They had been famous for being the new American blended family, their utopian lifestyle chronicled by film crews and reporters. But as Anton grows weaker, the hurts and betrayals of those years boil to the surface , and the children find themselves reliving their knotty intimacies as they struggle to make their peace with Anton - and with themselves. With shimmering prose and an acutely observant eye, McPhee has created a portrait of a family that explores the limits, and obligations, of love.

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