Duck and Cover: A Novel

Name: Duck and Cover: A Novel
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Brenda Peterson
ISBN: 9781593168964

Author: Brenda Peterson

Narrator: Brenda Peterson

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio

Published: 03/06/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Arts & Entertainment, Young Adult Fiction, Humorous, Dark Humor

Synopsis

In this "bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel," (Publisher's Weekly) each of the MacKenzie family tells their stories in nine, wildly opposed points of view. Starting at a family reunion, three generations of the MacKenzies face off against each other. They discover that terrorism is as intimate as one’s own family. Selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," DUCK AND COVER is a "wicked black comedy" of a family who fights their wars "on the home front." As one of the MacKenzie children says, "The way nuclear families are put together, it just makes sense they would explode."

About Brenda Peterson

Brenda Peterson is the author of eighteen books, including the novel Duck and Cover, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and I Want to Be Left Behind, selected by the Christian Science Monitor among the Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010. Her most recent work, Your Life Is a Book, was a monthly Oprah book club selection. Peterson's work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle, and she has contributed environmental commentary to Seattle NPR stations and on animal and environmental issues for the Huffington Post. She lives in Seattle on the shores of Salish Sea.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brett on January 14, 2017

A very good book, though I feel it's misleading to describe it as funny, or a dark comedy - it's intense, bleak and dark with a few moments of levity. Also, the matriarch should have ended up in jail.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on August 16, 2009

A very funny, engaging and disturbing book! I am a bit bias (note the last name of the writer). A Good read -- you'll laugh out loud and find yourself being challenged.......more