Family RomanceI grew up with a sense that there was another, fuller, darker narrative looming behind the various shorter stories my mother told so well and so funnily. Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester pieces together his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets, and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his family's lives: his