What was the best family saga you ever read?

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What was the best family saga you ever read? Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Mon Apr 1 11:04:31 2013 No.3615370 [Reply] [Original]

I'd say Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Also a great diatribe on what it means to be lower / upper-middle class.

Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Mon Apr 1 11:18:30 2013 No.3615405
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>>3615370

Here's a question for /lit/: why do so many family sagas encompass magical realism? It's like there's a law (read: strong guideline) that says family sagas have to have magical realism.

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