Family Dysfunction: Literature for Thanksgiving

The literary magazine Ploughshares serves up a banquet of dysfunctional family literature for your Thanksgiving gathering in its November issue.

Lydia Davis, New York State Writers Institute Writing Fellow, provides one of the appetizers:

"If your taste for dysfunction veers toward the quietly lethal, I urge readers to pick up a copy of anything by Lydia Davis. 'Meat, My Husband,' which appears in her Collected Stories, and originally in Almost No Memory, is the ideal amuse-bouche for a family gathering." More.