by Jennifer Vanderbes
I have not read Jennifer Vanderbes first novel, Easter Island, but now I will, having just finished her entertaining second book, Strangers at the Feast. In this book, Vanderbes writes about three generations of the Olson family, as they celebrate Thanksgiving dinner in Connecticut. Each character in the story is described with humorous undertones without obscuring the very real problems that each is suffering with. The book comes across as if a social anthropologist wrote a charming novel about an American Thanksgiving dinner. Themes of feminism, emasculated manhood, mistreatment of the lower class, and ruthless building development, each have a seat at the dining room table. The novel moves along quickly with plenty of surprises.
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