This book has prompted me to declare a "family drama" subgenre called "funeral fall-out." Not that all the books included here need to begin at a funeral, but the stories deal with the aftermath of a death, usually with dramatic ramifications. Examples are things like extra children, extra families, odd bequests, inheritances going not as planned, oh and finding out your father was gay and in a long-term relationship with his business partner. That last one is what faces the Williams' family when Gerry dies. I have to tell you, other than never ever wanting to hear the name "Connor" again and probably needing to leave the room whenever Carol Anne opened her mouth, I loved these super flawed super human characters. Each of them trying to deal with the loss of Gerry while also their own internal turmoil and those lovely family dynamics made for a book I didn't want to put down. I read an arc and I hope the published copy includes a family tree because keeping track of the many characters was difficult and it took a long time for me to be able to put each of them in their place within the family without stopping to figure it out.