The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir-Fast Shipping

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A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love.”—People

Somehow,between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-starmother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings,the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together.

All that changed with the death of their mother. While nineteen-year-oldAmanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings–Liz, sixteen; Dan, fourteen;and Diana, eight–were each dispatched to a different set of family friends. Quick-wittedand sharp-tongued, Amanda headed for college in New York City and immersed herselfin an ’80s world of alternative music and drugs. Liz, living with the couple forwhom she babysat, followed in Amanda’s footsteps until high school graduation whenshe took a job in Norway as a nanny. Mischievous, rebellious Dan, bounced from guardianto boarding school and back again, getting deeper into trouble and drugs. And Diana,the red-haired baby of the family, was given a new life and identity and told toforget her past. But Diana’s siblings refused to forget her–or let her go.

Toldin the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story ofun­breakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children’s wrenchingloss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that boththeir mother and father endowed them with–growing up as lost souls, taking disastrousturns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not onlyall right; they’re back together.