Weird Family: Fantastical

Andrew Kaufman Dept: In this weirdly tender novel of the five siblings of the Weird family, Kaufman shows the rifts, the heartaches, and the unbreakable bonds of family through fantastical events and mystical coincidences. He creates an utterly plausible emotional world through a series of completely improbable incidents, according to The Chronicle Herald. The very same can be said of the new novel, Born Weird and andrew Kaufman could have begun his new novel, Born Weird Random House with the sentence, every family is weird in its own way as an echo of Tolstoy s famous line, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way . For in his portrayal of a decidedly weird family, Kaufman displays our heartaches, vulnerabilities, and our resilient, hopeful braveries. Kaufman has made a career out of creating curious characters and fantastical plots. His first novel, All My Friends are Superheroes, is clever and funny, unpredictable and yet, very moving. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.