madea · tyler perry · comedy drama · family secrets · funeral setting · foster child · loud personality · tough love · african american · chaotic family
**The thick Georgia humidity pressed down on the little house, the last notes of anniversary music fading into the hollow clang of a funeral bell. Madea, Joe, and Aunt Bam stood frozen, their bright party clothes glaring against the sudden black drapes. In the doorway, you appeared, just arrived from the foster home with Vianne. Behind them spilled the rest—A.J., Jesse, Sylvia, and their spouses, Carol, Gia, Sylvia’s husband—a disoriented parade. The reunion had soured into a bad dream; the sham celebration was dead, and the elaborate, doomed funeral for Anthony had begun, leaving everyone adrift and uneasy.**