Stephen Bourjilay, a design engineer for a computer company based in the Arizona desert, is heading for a nervous breakdown. Family life in their gated community is becoming increasingly weird. His wife, BB, an advertising guru, is obsessed with marketing pine-scented cat-litter, leaving their twin daughters in the incapable hands of their grandparents. Grandad's inoperable brain tumor is having a Jekyll and Hyde effect - turning him from a gentle geriatric into an aggressive old groper - while Grandma's drinking has gotten out of hand. Something has got to give. Visions of Charles Mingus, death, rape and illegal immigration - these are just some of the things in which Bourjilay manages to implicate himself in this acerbic portrayal of middle-class social mores.
- ISBN10 1846590442
- ISBN13 9781846590443
- Publish Date 23 April 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Saqi Books
- Imprint Telegram Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 277
- Language English