All Families Are Psychotic

All Families Are Psychotic is the seventh novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 2001. The novel is the fictional story of the dysfunctional Drummond family and their adventures on a trip to see their daughter's space shuttle launch.
Plot.
The novel is the tale of the Drummond family from Vancouver gathering together to watch Sarah Drummond's space shuttle blast off at the Kennedy Space Center. The Drummonds are a group of misfits with a wide array of personal foibles and intricacies. The novel's plot is the tale of events that reunite the Drummond family after many years of estrangement.
Several plot points of the book include geriatric HIV, armed robbery, death in Walt Disney World, pharmaceutical drug lords, black market baby sales, Daytona Beach, and suicide attempts.
Early in the book the men of the family travel to nearby Walt Disney World where they receive a package destined for the Bahamas containing a letter written by Prince William stolen from Princess Diana's casket. The men start to travel to the Bahamas to deliver their package, but everything and anything happens to them on the way.
The novel is told in a similar style to "Miss Wyoming", with many plot flashbacks. However, the focus in this novel is on the temporally linear plot.
Inspiration.
The trigger for the book was Coupland's mother's discovery of the Internet, mirrored by Janet's discovery of the Internet in the text.
In Coupland's 1995 novel "Microserfs", the narrator says about his girlfriend: "All she'll say is they are psychotic, as if everybody else's family isn't."
History.
The novel is one of Coupland's more popular. In its initial publication run, it was printed in two halves, glued back to back, so that one cover was upside down. The reader was forced, halfway through the novel, to turn the book upside down to continue reading. This quirk was eliminated on subsequent print runs, but the cover still retained this peculiar arrangement in some later printings.
The original British cover, which featured a woman in a rocket ship, caused Coupland some grief, as "it misportrays the book's contents and sort of . . . sends the wrong message out". The original Canadian and American covers featured a Larry Sultan photograph of an older woman staring out a window through curtains.
In 2006, DreamWorks announced that a film version of "All Families Are Psychotic" would be released in 2006 or 2007. The project remains in development. Writer Mark Poirier has been commissioned to adapt the screenplay from Coupland's novel.