What the Family Needed, (Paperback)

from plumcover3

What does any family need more than a few super powers and the possibility of a do-over? With marital break ups and all families facing illness and death, don't we each wish we had the power to change each other or ourselves? Amsterdam's families come with foibles that make them easy to connect w...

from lmgrim

Each chapter focuses on one family member at a particular point in time while referencing each of the other family members, so we see the progression of all of the characters over time but through different perspectives and as each person gets what he or she needs. Some characters and situations ...

from TadAD

This book was a rather good idea that somehow failed to gel completely for me. The idea is fairly simple: seven members of a family reach points in their lives where they are seriously troubled. Each of them, unbeknownst to the others, developers a singular super power that helps them (maybe) mov...

from brigitte64

I enjoyed reading this book, I liked it that every chapter was written from a different perspective, the "sneaking" in that they all have somehow supernatural powers was interesting without making this in a magic or science fiction story. Easy to read, nice written, only the end was a little bit ...

from kalky

WHAT THE FAMILY NEEDED by Steven Amsterdam is more a collection of short stories than a novel, although the stories follow a timeline and weave together nicely. It begins with a chapter in which young Alek asks his teenage cousin what she prefers, "To be able to fly or to be invisible." Giordana ...