The Good Family Fitzgerald

The Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis, many of their own creation. Even so, they live large, in love and in strife, wielding power, combating adversaries and each other. The Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition, crime and the Catholic Church, a sprawling, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord.

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  • “Joseph di Prisco’s new novel, The Good Family Fitzgerald, is a sprawling saga of an Irish-American clan, a richly comedic drama with indelible characters, told with biting wit…. His Fitzgeralds are by turns hot-headed and enigmatic, bursting with vitality or keeping their thoughts to themselves. The plot is episodic but compelling, and the dialogue clever without becoming cutesy. The Good Family Fitzgerald is a book worth sinking into, well-suited for relaxing in a hammock on a lazy afternoon.”

    — Michael Berry, Berkeleyside

  • “Di Prisco has gone out on a limb with his family history, reminiscent in many ways of Irwin Shaw’s Rich Man, Poor Man, casting this big fat gem of a book out on a vast ocean of literary ‘minimalism’. At a time when ‘restraint’ is one of the buzzwords in contemporary fiction, he’s given us a tome almost as big as the New Testament. But it’s definitely more profane than sacred. And it’s mesmerizing.”

    — Anne Cunningham (Dublin)

  • “A fantastic read. Cinematic! Amazing Characters!”

    — Janine, bookseller, Orinda Books

  • “This book tells the story of the Fitzgeralds, a family that has pretty much every kind of character you can imagine from priests to criminals, drug addicts to teachers, and everything in between. Di Prisco's writing is rich and full of humor and wonderful observations about our times and human weakness as well as strength. You will love the characters, the story, and the writing.”

    — Anne Raeff, author of Winter Kept Us Warm and Only the River

  • “The Good Family Fitzgerald is a wondrous, thoroughly fascinating novel with a grand cast of characters, and Di Prisco manages this cavalcade deftly. From the troubled Catholic priest, to the aging "capo" figure, to the sexy women, young and old, who alternately caper and then drag themselves through romantic encounters, I liked them all.”

    — A.R. Taylor, author of Jenna Takes the Fall

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