If you, like me, have only read Jaackson's works of horror and mystery, Life Among the Savages, you are in for a treat. In this lightly fictionalized memoir of six years of raising her family, Jackson uses her storycrafting craft to depict the chaos of home life with droll self-deprecation and an outsider's eye on the quirks of small town life in New England. Resolutely from the 1950s, this feels utterly contemporary. Charming.