Book Review: Did You Ever Have a Family I knew I was going to love this book. Almost like when you know without a shadow of a doubt that the gift under the Christmas tree is the exact gift you have been pining after for months but you have to wait to unwrap it. I saw this book in my "to-read" list for months and each time I saw it, a tingling started in the back of my brain in anticipation of reading it. I may have even prolonged reading it because I didn't want it to end, even before I had read the first page. The characters in this book live in a small town in Connecticut. They are torn apart when a fire takes the lives of several of their loved ones and suddenly, instead of the wedding they had all been planning for, they are planning funerals. In their own words, mothers, fathers, lovers, friends and acquaintances share their stories of the loved ones they have lost. By coincidence, some of the characters end up in a tiny little hotel thousa