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PoorMonger

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22. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 11:44 AM
Apr 2017

“The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family….The best single word description would be brilliant.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto “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….A total blast.” —Hannah Pittard, author of The Fates Will Find Their Way Owen King (We’re All in This Together) calls author Kevin Wilson, “the unholy child of George Saunders and Carson McCullers.” With his novel, The Family Fang, the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Tunneling to the Center of the Earth comes through in a BIG way, with a funny, poignant, laugh-and-cry-out-loud (sometimes at the same time) novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction. Meet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art. If the writing of Gary Shteyngart, Miranda July, Scarlett Thomas, and Charles Yu excites you, you’ll certainly want to invite this Family into your home.

This is really pretty good - heard positive things about it years ago and grabbed it at the library because i noticed Wilson's new novel on the arrivals shelf last week. Was surprised to learn its a movie too. ( just realize this when I looked the synopsis now )

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Wow, that sounds like a must-read hermetic Apr 2017 #2
I was first in Leningrad in January 1985. pangaia Apr 2017 #8
I am listening, I opened it in another tab hermetic Apr 2017 #10
Thank you . I will get the book. pangaia Apr 2017 #11
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It does sound like hermetic Apr 2017 #6
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Thank you hermetic Apr 2017 #15
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I'll share what I just read about this book hermetic Apr 2017 #14
"Reliquary" Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child TexasProgresive Apr 2017 #17
I want to know hermetic Apr 2017 #18
Have you read "Relic"? TexasProgresive Apr 2017 #19
Yes, I have hermetic Apr 2017 #20
I am at page 93 TexasProgresive Apr 2017 #21
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson PoorMonger Apr 2017 #22
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