The characters of this book are ordinary folks. The book exposes a family dealing with aging and retirement, a homosexual son, marriage and relationship difficulties, etc. The dilemmas faced by these ordinary characters are familiar to us all, but this time it is a “comedy”. However, the book is NOT funny. Here one of typical jokes in the book:
"George could do the bluff repartee about cars and sport if pressed. But it was like being a sheep in the nativity play"

HA- Ha..

PS: this is the place where you suppose to laugh!