<p>In this 'bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel' (Publisher's Weekly) each of the MacKenzie family tells their stories in nine wildly opposed points of view. Starting at a family reunion three generations of the MacKenzies face off against each other. They discover that terrorism is as intimate as one’s own family. Selected as a New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' DUCK AND COVER is a 'wicked black comedy' of a family who fights their wars 'on the home front.' As one of the MacKenzie children says 'The way nuclear families are put together it just makes sense they would explode.'</p>