The Family Fang

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New York Times bestseller - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THEYEAR BY TIME, PEOPLE, SALON, AND ESQUIRE"The Family Fang is acomedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make artand survive your family....The best single word description would be brilliant."--Ann Patchett, author of BelCantoA funny, poignant, laugh-and-cry-out-loud (sometimes at the same time) novel about the art ofsurviving a masterpiece of dysfunction. Meet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection ofdemanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are riskyand mischievous performance art. Basis for the major motion picture starringNicole Kidman, Jason Bateman and Christopher Walken.Annie and Buster Fang have spentmost of their adult lives trying to distance themselves from their famousartist parents, Caleb and Camille. But when a bad economy and a few badpersonal decisions converge, the two siblings have nowhere to turn but their familyhome. Reunited under one roof for the first time in more than a decade andsurrounded by the souvenirs of their unusual upbringing, Buster and Annie areforced to confront not only their creatively ambitious parents, but the chaosand confusion of their childhood."It's TheRoyal Tenenbaums meets Who'sAfraid of Virginia Woolf? I'd call The Family Fang aguilty pleasure, but it's too damn smart....A total blast."--Hannah Pittard, author of TheFates Will Find Their Way