Saturday, May 16, 2020

The Family Fang

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (2011) 309 pages

Annie and Buster Fang spend their youth pulled into performance art created by their parents, Caleb and Camille Fang. It's clear that neither enjoys these episodes, where they are known as Child A and Child B. As adults, both of them find themselves adrift. Annie, an actress, and Buster, a novelist, each end up back at their parents' home in Tennessee. When their parents disappear, their bloody car found at a rest stop on the highway, Annie and Buster chalk it up to yet another performance art piece, in spite of the fact that the police think their parents are probably dead.

The story alternates between Annie and Buster's childhood experiences as props in their parents' performances‒usually at shopping malls‒and the present, where the two decide on a plan to find out whether their parents are really now dead.


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