A review by andintothetrees
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

3.0

On paper, this novel has many elements that I love – a dysfunctional family, life lived away from the mainstream, characters who are celebrities and an insight into the art world. It tracks a few months in the lives of thirty(ish)-year-olds Annie and Buster Fang, an actress and writer respectively, who have hit trouble in their adult lives and ran back to their family home to take stock and regroup. Their parents, Caleb and Camille, are perfomance artists who take their work very seriously – work which included Annie and Buster when they were children, and which we are invited to observe through flashbacks. Caleb and Camille disappear shortly after Annie and Buster move back home, and the two set about hunting for them, lending the book a slight road trip narrative arc.

... [Read the rest of my review here: https://whathannahread.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/the-family-fang-by-kevin-wilson/]