The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

★★

It's kind of a weird book. It's filled with just the sort of characters that only John Irving could dream up. It's about a family who lives and runs a hotel. Their life, which might be anything but ordinary to you or me, is all that these characters know, and so, despite the fact that their lives are dotted with tragedies, it's just what life is to them. The book is really about how each character deals with the events surrounding the family, each person dealing in his or her own way. It's written as a memoir by one of the children, now grown up, and so the entire narrative has a sense of nostalgia and sadness to it, even though parts of it are pretty chuckle-worthy.

Anyway, like I said, it's kind of weird, the stories that are weaved together in the book.