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Crossroads Road: A Novel [Kindle Edition]

Jeff Kay
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Jovis McIntire's quiet life in the suburbs is turned upside down the day his mother-in-law wins $234 million in a multi-state lottery. She quickly makes an identical offer to all her children and their families: a large, custom-built home, and two million dollars cash.

But there's a catch, a nasty hook hidden inside the bait. If the deal is accepted, they will be required to live together on a newly-created cul-de-sac in southern California, for the remainder of the matriarch's life — a woman Jovis sarcastically calls Sunshine.

Not a chance!

And that would only be the beginning of it, he knows. The rest of his wife's family is no prize, either. Nancy the bohemian earth child with organic, free-range armpits, Kevin the pompous scarf-wearing intellectual, Sue the 400-pound attention junkie who throws herself down flights of stairs for sympathy… Jovis sees them all as kooks, in one way or another, and they want him to live amongst them? Not for a million bucks! Or two million, even.

But his defiance begins to fade when Jovis returns to his job, and realizes he's now there by choice.

Crossroads Road is the first novel by Jeff Kay, proprietor of the popular humor site The West Virginia Surf Report! It is a rollicking comedy, perfect for fans of National Lampoon's Vacation, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

An early reader called the book "relentlessly hilarious."

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 321 KB
  • Print Length: 264 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 098333580X
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Smoking Fish Media (28 Mar 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004UC538I
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #326,777 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mayhem and madness at every turn 26 Mar 2012
By D. Brown VINE™ VOICE
Format:Kindle Edition
Crossroads Road by Jeff Kay is the very funny tale of what happens when the answer to all your hopes turns out to be the key to a whole new set of problems. Imagine you're desperate to start again, to break away from the humdrum banality of life and enjoy a quieter existence. Imagine a relative wins millions of dollars and offers to buy you a house and give you enough money to make sure you can have a substantial break from work, as long as you're careful with the money. Wouldn't it be a dream come true?

Well, not if you're going to be living on Crossroads Road. With interfering relatives. With mayhem and madness at every turn.

It's not often I read books that I find genuinely funny but Jeff Kay's novel is certainly full of laughs. From the millionaire control freak who still insists on smuggling fried chicken into venues on a day out to her frankly utterly odd children and grandchildren, Crossroads Road is so chock full of bizarre characters and their unusual antics that it's a bit like `car wreck TV' in book format! You can see it coming... you know you shouldn't read on... but you do!

This is very entertaining and the caricatures in the book serve to point out some important facts: it's hard living with family. It's even harder when your family are so far from normal it's almost beyond belief. And - of course - the grass is not always greener on the other side! Very amusing, very easy to read and very good fun.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Laugh out loud 13 Jun 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
This book made me laugh out loud. You know that it is not going to go well when Jovis' mother in law wins the Lotto and makes all the members of the family an offer that is hard to refuse and most definitely has strings attached! The characters are well written and i was so keen to find out what happened that i read it in one sitting. I really enjoyed reading about this family and would recommend it as a funny read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I hate the title. 10 Jun 2011
By Dean
Format:Kindle Edition
But then, I'm supposed to - you'll work out why when you read this. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy this excursion into dysfunctional family life, but Jeff Kay's situations and the observations of the "normal" narrator of the story piqued my interest and often made me laugh out loud. As far as the plot goes, Donna, matriarch of the family wins millions on the lottery and offers all her kids a house and $2 million, if they agree to move into the new development she's creating in California. What seems to be a deal with the devil swiftly degenerates, culminating in "The Incident". I thoroughly enjoyed this and can highly recommend it. (Oh, I hate the cover too, if I'd seen this on a shelf in a bookstore, I wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.)
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