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GOOD Books: Dysfunctional Families

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Thanksgiving weekend is a wonderful time. If you're like us, you're spending today indulging in gravy-covered leftovers while sitting around in sweatpants. But with the feast comes family—and while we love them to the core, there are times when our relatives and their antics become just too much. While there are debatably illegal ways to survive the family craze, we offer a different option: salvation through comparison. The families in this week's GOOD Books up the dysfunctional family ante 10-fold with pedophilia, pregnancy, telekinetics, and the struggle to grow up while raising an eight-year-old. Find respite from your dysfunction in theses stories. After all, that's what good books are for. To curl up on a lazy post-Thanksgiving afternoon with and get lost in another's narrative.

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