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    <body><![CDATA[<em>A Friend of the Family</em> traces the disintegration of a wealthy New Jersey suburban family. The novel is narrated by Pete Dizinoff, a successful family doctor with a wife, a son, and close friends. Jumping back and forth in time, Pete describes the idyllic life he and his wife built with their beloved...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76381980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great storytelling...a suburban dream gone haywire, about an upstanding New Jersey doctor who goes to great lengths to ensure his son's future. Many baby boomers will relate to Dr. Pete, as their friend and neighbor who brags about the son who is a baseball star or got into MIT...it is all very fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80455774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book about a suburban father's blind, misguided love for his son was a pageturner. We meet Dr. Pete Dizinoff after his life has already collapsed around him - his personal and professional life in shambles. We spend the rest of the book finding out how it all happened, including flashbacks to P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78144525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told in retrospect from the viewpoint of a father in distress, this novel charts the trajectories that comprise relationships between husband and wife, married friends, and most importantly, father and son. Peter justifies illogical actions through his fatalistic love for his son Alec, which causes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77582956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought it was a decent read...but I have read books where the reader is lured into the narrator's life in a much more compelling way (I'm thinking of Elizabeth Stroudt and others). It was interesting that the female author wrote in a male/father voice. I thought the character of the mother was so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80057355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really compelling and interesting read. The book grabbed me right away and I really loved how there was a bit of &quot;mystery&quot; to it. Not in the traditional sense, but in that the reader knows something VERY BAD happened (though frankly I was expecting something much worse) but you don't know ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80131018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grodstein is a decent enough writer but the end result didn't prove tragic enough as the reader is anticipating something more tragic (not that the result of a doctor/patient relationship isn't) but we know it in the beginning. The dynamic between the protagonist doctor narrating his life in from va...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71793160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A couple of reasons I loved it:  1) Great suspense:  at the beginning you know something awful has happened to this nice suburban family, but you don't find out what until the very end, after many engrossing pages.  And yet it's not a suspense novel, per se; it's also a medical mystery and a domesti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76901350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't put this book down. Then I discovered that a coworker also read it, and we got into a ten-minute discussion of the book and it was then that I realized I haven't read such an engrossing and complicated book in a long time. <br/><br/>The author does a wonderful job with suspense, foresha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77030637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Joyce Maynard's Labor Day describes the unlikely formation of a family, Friend of the Family traces one's distintegration.  Told mainly in flashbacks, the book shows how well-intentioned people, acting out of love, can cause dreadful harm -- to themselves and those they hold dearest.  Moving, wel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68326998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A father unhappy with his golden son's choices in life and love narrates a heart-breaking story of a family's unraveling.  It clutches you page after can't-put-down page  how blind the father, Dr. Peter Dizinoff, is to the forces at work.  Although he is told, &quot;There is no one right way to live...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63430720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been awhile since a book review made me want to read a book.  David Thoreen wrote a great review of this book in Sunday's Boston Globe.  Think I'll put it into my to-read list!<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/22/a_self_righteous_overprotective_doctor_splinters_family_and_friends/" title="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/22/a_self_righteous_overprotective_doctor_splinters_family_and_friends/">http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78650264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to rate books that I worked on as a proofreader, as I don't read them the same as I read books I'm reading for pleasure. That said, this book certainly had a compelling plot and interesting characters, and there were times when I wished I was reading it for pleasure rather than for errors.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77022569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance and rescue his son, not foreseeing how his whole world will shatter in the process.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unbelievable writing.  The reader will feel that she knows these characters personally and ache for the characters.  Grodstein writes beautifully and captures the angst so many parents and young people experience.  Read it...if you like real life family drama!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was about the long-term friendship between two families.  The adults had met in college.  It's based in New Jersey, and the children are the age of my own.  The writing was good, story line interesting...a good mostly mindless read (not in a bad way).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok.  This was really really really good.  A few of the cover's reviewers used the word &quot;gripping&quot; and it's the word that keeps popping into my head.  It was dark and intense but I inhaled it.  I couldn't put it down.<br/>Read it.  You won't regret it.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous book about real characters who come to life on the page. It's a compelling book about complications between two families who are old friends, and what happens when some of their children interact. DOn't miss it!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, I liked how the author used flashbacks to tell the story. It helped create suspense. However, at times, it was confusing to keep track of whether it was the present or past.  This is a quick, engaging read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[totally riveting. beautifully constructed foreboding. big questions: what will we sacrifice for our children? how will those sacrifices inform what we expect of them? to what lengths will we go to protect them/protect what we hope for them? ]]></body>
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