RaveVultureThis story, and the author’s heartful understanding of it, has been deeply informing my views on class and addiction in America for 30 years. And that [Saunder\'s] masterful writing of it here represents an original and essential part of the American story — and especially the way family functions, or doesn’t — that I have never seen represented before. I don’t know a book that better describes the way that, as Terry Eagleton put it, \'capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.\' ... There is something remarkable and new going on here in the way point of view works, that models a true \'God’s eye\' view: everyone right, everyone wrong, everyone valid.