Sentences with phrase «fraught life of the family»
Born in 1958 in Dublin, Roddy Doyle is a prolific Irish writer who has found over two decades - worth of material in the humorous, tender, and fraught life of the family.
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Instead, I think the big issue for women (and much less so for men) is their lack of confidence in their ability to fulfill their life - goals, which is why marriage, family, and the extremely fraught issues of sexuality loom so large in our cultural politics.
Synopsis: The ugly duckling of a fraught middle - class household has her life turned upside - down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdest satire of petit - bourgeois family life.
Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.