"As its title indicates, 'Fiction Ruined My Family' adds a literary aspect to these standard-issue ingredients (her parents’ alcoholism, social pretensions, delusional behavior and financial instability, among other things). The author’s father, Stephen Darst, wanted so badly to write that he moved his family from St. Louis to Amagansett, Long Island, a better place for what he called 'getting the novel together.' It’s not exactly clear why he deemed this setting more conducive to his work, but Ms. Darst found herself 'living on a farm, which I would quickly discover had more New Yorker writers on it than cows and chickens.' A line like that is reason enough to forget the Augusten Burroughs version and start reading Ms. Darst on her own merits..."
Fiction Ruined My Family by Jeanne Darst – review
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
Fiction Ruined My Family by Jeanne Darst– excerpt
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/books/excerpt-fiction-ruined-my-family-by-jeanne-darst.html?ref=books
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