The Kids Are All Right
by Liz Welch and Diana Welch, with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch
“A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love.”
– People
Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together…
Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of unbreakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children’s wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with–growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not only all right; they’re back together.
– Crown, 2010
ALA Award Winner, 2010
Salon.com Best Book of 2009
REVIEWS
“THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT reinvents the genre. It’s a choral book, with the point of view shifting between four siblings — Amanda, Liz, Dan and Diana Welch — who recount, and disagree about, the disintegration of their family….This is a memoir that always feels alive and true, and one that exists for no other reason than that the story needed to be told.”
– Sean Wilsey, Salon.com
“This frank, wry, aching memoir…will leave readers musing over memory’s slippery nature; the imperfect, enduring bonds of family; and the human heart’s remarkable resilience.”
– Booklist
“Well crafted and beautifully written, not to mention tremendously engrossing and moving. I couldn’t put it down and came to love and respect every member of this singular family.”
– O, The Oprah Magazine
“After the suspicious demise of dad and loss of mom to cancer, the orphaned Welch children were split up; now grown, and in rocking chorus, Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch explain how in the world The Kids Are All Right.”
– Vanity Fair
“THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT hooks reader’s attention from the first jarring sentence and doesn’t let go until the very last poignant moment. This memoir reads like a fictional narrative, and readers may find themselves unable to put it down, enthralled as if it were a page-turning murder mystery.”
– The Daily Texan