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Family Matters We’ve got two very different but highly enjoyable books about the nature of family hitting shelves this June. First up, it’s Dan Bucatinsky, who is perhaps most famous for producing the gone-before-its-time television gem “The Comeback” starring Lisa Kudrow. When he wasn’t busy making award-worthy comedy, Bucatinsky was building a family with his partner Don, and he turns his experiences of becoming a Dad into laugh-out-loud memoir in Does this Baby Make Me Look Straight? Meanwhile, later in the month, meet June, the adolescent girl at the center of Carol Rifka Brunt’s amazing debut novel Tell the Wolves I’m Home. June’s beloved Uncle Finn is her best friend, but he’s dying of AIDS. When he goes, he leaves behind a secret life she’s compelled to explore. This thrilling story about the power of secrets, art and the extraordinary lengths to which a family will go to protect each other rivals “To Kill a Mockingbird” for my favorite young female heroine.
