The Family Fang

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vviAis'E vo'Si The Family Fang
"Inventive and hilarious cunning and comical." —Wall Street journal
"A delightfully odd story [T]he poignant truth Wilson captures beneath the humor of this peculiar family: Our crazy parents' offenses sometimes loom so large that we don't realize just what they did for us until it's too late. Here, in the pages of this droll novel, is a chance to come home and make up."
—IVashingtonTost
"Irresistible."
"Come on in! It's cooooool inside!"
-NPR's
"Totally weird, and pretty wonderful manages to be brainy without sacrificing heart." —O, the Oprah Magazine
"It's The Royal Tenenbaums meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I'd call The Family Fang a guilty pleasure, but it's too damn smart."
—Hannah Pittard, zaXhoxoiTheFatesWillFindTheirWay
^^The Family Fang is the kind ofnovel you fall in love with: tenderhearted, wonder-filled, a world aU its own." —Josh Weil, author oiTheKew Valley
"A winningly bizarre clan on the brink."
-VanityFair... Tovább

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vviAis'E vo'Si The Family Fang
"Inventive and hilarious cunning and comical." —Wall Street journal
"A delightfully odd story [T]he poignant truth Wilson captures beneath the humor of this peculiar family: Our crazy parents' offenses sometimes loom so large that we don't realize just what they did for us until it's too late. Here, in the pages of this droll novel, is a chance to come home and make up."
—IVashingtonTost
"Irresistible."
"Come on in! It's cooooool inside!"
-NPR's
"Totally weird, and pretty wonderful manages to be brainy without sacrificing heart." —O, the Oprah Magazine
"It's The Royal Tenenbaums meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I'd call The Family Fang a guilty pleasure, but it's too damn smart."
—Hannah Pittard, zaXhoxoiTheFatesWillFindTheirWay
^^The Family Fang is the kind ofnovel you fall in love with: tenderhearted, wonder-filled, a world aU its own." —Josh Weil, author oiTheKew Valley
"A winningly bizarre clan on the brink."
-VanityFair
"Wilson brilliantly and hilariously explores the 'art for art's sake' argument."
—Kew Tork Times Book Review
"Wilson writes with the studied quirkiness of George Saunders or filmmaker Wes Anderson." —Entertainment Weekly
"Kevin Wilson commands the cavalry riding around the vastly important Army of the Loopy. This Army protects the less important Army of the Earnest. He rides slashing from the Implausible to the Plausible, and from there quickly to the Necessary and on to the True."
—Padgett Powell, wthoroiThelnterrogatineMood
MR. AND MRS. FANG called it art. THEIR CHILDREN called it mischief.
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Performance artists Caleb and Camilla Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work hes in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with hfe outside the iishbowl of their parents' strange world.
When the hves they've built come crashing down, brother and sister have nowhere to go but home, where they discover that Caleb and Camille are planning one last performance—their magnum opus—whether the kids agree to participate or not. Soon, ambition breeds conflict, bringing the Fangs to face the difficult decision about what's ultimately more important: their family or their art.
Filled with Kevin Wilson's endless creativity, vibrant prose, sharp humor, and keen sense of the complex performances that unfold in the relationships of people who love one another. TheFami/yFafig is a mzsteriuUy executed tale that is as bizarre as it is touching. Vissza