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When a poor teenager reads about the opulent world his mother grew up in, he sets out to capture the life that has been denied to him. Detailing the rise and fall of his wealthy relatives, Benson Family Secrets spans from the late sixties to the early 2000s. Part family saga, part coming of age tale, it is a domestic nightmare in the same vein as Richard Yates’ “Revolutionary Road,” Judith Guest’s “Ordinary People,” and Tom Perrotta’s “Little Children.”