I wanted to like this book. The premise was so interesting, even more so when I learned that the very unlikely family was similar to the author's. I wonder why the editor didn't catch the mixed metaphors, boring repetitions, and misused words on almost every page. I think we were meant to like this family, but were shown very little to like. The word sneered appeared over and over and sums up the way these very unpleasant people spoke to each other.I was fairly intrigued with the story but I gave up about 3/4 of the way through. It was simply unreadable.