THE HAPPY FAMILY

About the Book

When his wife died, Teddy Oliver inherited a fortune and a family-three teenage daughters as eccentric as money, a doting father, and living on the San Francisco Peninsula could make them. The story bisects the mythological subculture of California-a mix of studied freedom of ideas, dress, "lifestyle", and sex.

" Patricia Zelver's humor is like a kitten hiding behind the sofa waiting to dart out and take a couple of slaps and dash back in. Her stories make me do what I practically never do, laugh out loud (what's to laugh at most of the time?)."-Wallace Stegner

About the Author

Patricia Zelver has published novels, children?s picture books, and short stories which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Threepenny Review and numerous other literary magazines and anthologies. She was a graduate of the Stanford Writing Center and winner of five O. Henry Prize Story Awards.