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If you've read Patti Abbott's short fiction, you already know she's exceedingly good at using subtle details to create complex characters and atmospheric situations. This novel is no different. It follows a somewhat typical (though compelling) American family through 50 years of dysfunction and the result is a heartbreaking, yet ultimately hopeful, novel. This is top notch writing, folks, and I look forward to reading much more of Abbott's work.
Patti Abbott has a well deserved reputation for writing thoughtful short stories about ordinary people who find themselves living on the edge or caught up in criminal activities. Home Invasion is her first novel and parses out her skill as a short story writer into a longer narrative that follows the trials and tribulations of different generations of a dysfunctional family of grifters over nearly half a century. Each chapter is set in a different year at a key inflection point in a family histo...
Home Invasion is blissfully both a novel and a short story collection. There are continuing characters that connect this set of stories, which extend over a period of time from 1961 to 2005. They are mostly about members of the same family and the people whose lives happen to intersect with them. The way people find and connect with other people, gives her stories their particular twist. They are drawn together by a kind of magnetic pull that matches up weaknesses in their character rather than
Patti Abbot's first novel. Something all us fans have been waiting for since she first began publishing her most excellent short stories. It's a story of a family played out over fifty years, from the early sixties to today, in a series of short stories linked together much more than the term fix-up implies. Each depends on the previous to advance the story begun with Billie Slack and her efforts to find her father, her "marriage" to Dennis to her son and his family in modern times. A family bro...
So lucid. So potent. So unsettling. This is the deadliest portrait of a dysfunctional family that I can remember...and Patti Abbott makes it look easy. Oh my, is she good.
This is the first book I've read by Patti Abbott, one of those things I stumbled on and saved, then found in my Kindle yesterday...and read straight through. She's stealthy. Her prose, her plotting. And stealthy is the highest compliment you can give, because it's not saying "the writing was beautiful, the plot moved quickly" - it's not noticing the plotting or the prose, it's blinking and being halfway through the book, having paid no attention to how it was crafted or constructed at all, becau...
Home Invasion is a real gem of a book. It tells the story of 4 generations of a family that find it hard to play straight. We first meet Billie, a girl who is struggling along with her over-bearing mother (Kay) and new on the scene step-father (Mickey). Kay does her best to be a good mother and a good wife, two things that don’t fit together the way she works it. Amid all the chaos of the home, the writer sums it all up perfectly in one simple act, the devouring of one of the fish of another in
Being a big fan of Patti Abbot's short stories, I was excited when I heard about a full length novel. When I heard Snubnose Press was the publisher, I knew I had to grab it. A very entertaining tale about an incredibly dysfunctional family that spans 30 years. The story is told in a bunch of short stories that make up one large story. An interesting format that worked beautifully. A terrific book and highly recommended for fans of her short fiction which has been featured in about every crime ma...
Quite compelling. A series of interlinked stories detailing the history of a dysfunctional family. Some of the plot twists are surprising to say the least, which kept me entertained. My only complaint is that Abbott's writing can be a little flat and lacking affect.
When I first picked up 'Home Invasion', I thought it was a home invasion gone wrong kind of story. But 'Home Invasion is a much larger story, covering four generations, over forty years, and the cons that bind them.I don't want to ruin it for anyone by giving it a synopsis proper. As I said, it covers forty years, and you really have to see the progression of the family to enjoy it most. I don't want to give spoilers. But I will say that there are two central characters and two themes to each of...
