Mark Haddon has another success. It's not as poignant or as much of a literary reach as Curious Incident, but it's pretty damn good. I particularly liked how different people, such as father and son, would think separately of the same thing--ferries, for instance--and in their individual responses you could see how the people were both similar and different. I might not have liked the book, which at its basic plot is only a family drama, as much if I had not decided just partway through that it is the next book for my mother-in-law. She loved All Families Are Psychotic and has asked for similar books since. A tragicomedy about small group of closely but bitterly related people over a short span of time and an absurd chain of events? I came up with nothing, until this.