The Family Fang

by Kevin Wilson

Soon to be a major film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman

'Funny, smart, ingenious, moving, altogether great' Nick Hornby

World famous Caleb and Camille Fang have dedicated their lives to great performance art. But for their children, Annie and Buster, their 'art' is an embarrassment.

As soon as the children grow up they flee home, desperate to escape the chaos of their parents' world. But when the lives they've built come crashing down, brother and sister have no choice but to go back. And whether the kids agree to participate or not, Caleb and Camille are planning one last performance that will finally determine what's more important: their family or their art.

• ISBN10: 0061579033
• ISBN13: 9780061579035
• Publish Date: 9 August 2011
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

The Family Fang is 309 pages of a "Candid Camera". Caleb and Camille Fang put performance art above all else, although their kind of performance art I just found to be mean, but like a guy getting kicked in the nuts on America's Funniest Home Videos you can't help but laugh.

If I'm going to be honest, I could really have cared less if I ever found out what happened to Caleb and Camille, they were characters I would not waste my time on in real life and despite their great life's work of art I really didn't see what the big deal was about. It was Annie and Buster who I most cared to read about, how their screwed up childhood affected them and how they were developing into adults. Because of this I enjoyed seeing Child A and Child B shed the exteriors Caleb and Camille had perfected and in how ever messed up it was coming into their own.

When I look back The Family Fang was one big scavenger hunt, piecing together a menagerie of a story. Kevin Wilson has written an art piece that was excentric, originally creative and makes you want to get up and move.