NO HARM DONE

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A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarrys No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of Cold Comfort Farm with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in Strong Boy, this might be because every family, rich or poor, is roughage.The characters, gallant, goofy, gifted, and grim, include sickly mothers of a dozen children, boozy fathers with a gift of the gab, kids aspiring to be nuns and priests, or just to get out of town with a whole skin.A section is devoted to one marriage made in heaven a Jewish psychoanalyst devoted to his ex-nun