The Great Perhaps (English)

George W. Bush is about to win a second term, the Iraq war is in full fury, and in Chicago the wildly eccentric Casper family is in danger of splintering apart. Grandfather Henry has sworn to speak and do less each day until he vanishes completely. Jonathan and Madeline are both neurotic scientists whose research--into prehistoric squid and murderous pigeons, respectively--is going nowhere and whose marriage is crumbling beneath their feet. Meanwhile, one of the teenage daughters strives to start a Marxist revolution while the other desperately seeks for God. In Joe Meno's fourth novel he creates a delightful and disturbed family, and sympathetically portrays their quests for meaning in a chaotic world. minimize