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Fiction. Literature. HTML:An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them allâ??from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses â??Laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply resonant to our times. I was so happy to be in the Sullivan familyâ??s Chicago bar, caught in the swirl of three generations of grudges, love affairs and fraught personal decisions.â?ť â??Ann Napolitano, best-selling author of Dear Edward Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivanâ??s, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over the course of three strange months, the Cubs win the World Series, Trump is elected president, and Bud drops dead, suddenly everyone in the family finds themselves doubting all they hold dear. Take Gretchen for example, lead singer for a â??90s cover band who has been flirting with fame for a decade but is beginning to wonder if sheâ??s too old to be chasing a childish dream. Or Jane, Gretchenâ??s older sister, who is starting to suspect that her fitness-obsessed husband who hides the screen of his phone isnâ??t always â??working late.â?ť And then thereâ??s Teddy, their steadfast, unfailingly good cousin, nursing heartbreak and confusion because the guy who dumped him keeps showing up for lunch at JP Sullivanâ??s where Teddy is the manager. How can any of them be expected to make the right decisions when the world feels sidewaysâ??and the bartender at JP Sullivanâ??s makes such strong cocktails? Outrageously funny and wickedly astute, Marrying the Ketchups is a delicious confection by one of… (more)
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Politics and being woke were brought up just
Most of the characters were supposed to be adults. But, unfortunately, they didn't act that way, and they didn't grow very much.
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