Did You Ever Have a Family

Stunning and heartrending, the most powerfully accomplished debut novel of the year, DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILYfollows a circle of characters whose lives are changed irrevocably when a house fire kills several members of theirsmall community. With its kaleidoscopic approach to a character-driven story, a comparable novel would be thepublication of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.