List : a novel /

Roberson, Matthew.

List : a novel / Matthew Roberson. - Tuscaloosa, Alabama : FC2, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; Ways To Die; Then What?; Here's What He Bought; Things She Didn't Think; In Exchange; Women's Health Checklist; Allowance; Due; Come Thanksgiving; This Placed; Shrink; Inventory.

Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity. A suburban family of four- a man, woman, boy, and girl- struggle through claustrophobic days crowded with home improvement projects, conflicts at work and school, a job loss, illnesses, separation, and the wearying confrontation with aging. The accoutrements of modern life- electronic devices and vehicles- have ceased to be tools that support them and have become instead the central ful.




Families--Fiction.
Middle class--United States--Fiction.


Electronic Books.

PS3618 / .L578 2014