Status Updates From The Elected Member

Her writing is so versatile and tender, this family is instantly recognizable as real.

"They had
elected Norman for their scapegoat, each in their own way, her father, her
mother, her sister and herself, and now the back-lash was on them. Norman
was in a nut-house, asserting his rights, the right not to have been chosen."

"They had
elected Norman for their scapegoat, each in their own way, her father, her
mother, her sister and herself, and now the back-lash was on them. Norman
was in a nut-house, asserting his rights, the right not to have been chosen."

She felt guilty of the part she inevitably played in her
brother’s madness, and the part played indeed by the whole family. Norman
and his whole life had been an event for them all, it was something that had
happened to them and had ultimately nothing to do with Norman at all.
Norman might be in an asylum, but it was they, the two of them around the
table, who were in crisis, because their event had gone sour.

abt halfway through and my fears of what was insinuated at the beginning of this book was correct. i do hope that this gives me some kind of insight... i don't exactly need to read the perspective of a dysfunctional family, as i have enough experience to know what goes on, but seeing some of these topics are rarely talked about, i'm curious of how Rubens confronts them...