After The Corrections
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
If Franzen's surgical precision on Midwestern family implosion hooked you, Keane's Irish-American neighbors deliver the same catastrophic intimacy—mental illness, generational scars, and passive-aggressive kitchen warfare that makes you squirm with recognition. Multi-generational sprawl meets humor-soaked pathos, dissecting suburban cop families with zero moral comfort. Dysfunction this articulate is irresistible.