All families are happy in the same way, if Leo Tolstoy is to be believed, but each one is unhappy in its own way. This family in Martin Piekars About felling a family tree but is happy in her own way. The title may not stand for peace, joy, pancakes. In fact, you don’t come across anything like that. Son Marcin and mother Regina are happy under difficult circumstances. These would have provided material for two books. But Piekar packed them in one as a memorial for his mother. Marcin is the Polish first name version of Martin. These 460 pages and the author’s life are so closely intertwined that one unfortunately has to realize that this mother has already died, and not only in the novel.
