Full name: Little Known Facts: A Novel

Author: Christine Sneed Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781608199587 9781608199679 1608199584 1608199673

The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature--his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery--long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. Most of us can imagine the perks of celebrity, but Little Known Facts offers a clear-eyed story of its effects--the fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst. With Little Known Facts, Christine Sneed emerges as one of the most insightful chroniclers of our celebrity-obsessed age, telling a story of influence and affluence, of forging identity and happiness and a moral compass; the question being, if we could have anything on earth, would we choose correctly? Similar books: What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde Beach Music by Pat Conroy The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Where We Belong by Catherine Ryan Hyde Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster True Places by Sonja Yoerg Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Crow Lake by Mary Lawson A Mother's Confession by Kelly Rimmer