About the Book
When Kevin Gogarty’s eighty-three-year-old mother is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits’ end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his sulky, misbehaved teenaged daughter. Into the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia, the upbeat home aide, who appears at first to be their saving grace—until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet.
“Bracing, hilarious, warm” (Judy Blundell, New York Times bestselling author), Good Eggs is an irresistibly charming study in self-determination; the notion that it’s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family, despite its maddening flaws, can offer.
My Review
Good Eggs follows the Gogarty family as they attempt to navigate rough waters. From a shoplifting grandmother to an out of line teenager, we see all the trials and tribulations that get thrown at the characters. While the dysfunction gave me a few eyebrow raises from time to time, the book was fairly unmemorable for me. There weren’t a lot of humorous moments, mostly just scenes that made me cringe and feel sorry for everyone involved. I read through until the end where it picked up a little with the addition of Sylvia and her escapades, but overall not a favorite.
2 stars
