Happy Families Are all Alike
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina This, the opening line to Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina, is packed full of meaning, and the rest of the book expounds in story form what he means. We read of one miserable family owing its pain to the self-absorption of the husband. In another, it’s because of the internal angst of a middle-aged wife that drives her into the arms…