Is anything more important than art? The Fang parents,
Caleb and Camille, don’t think so. The Fang children, Annie and Buster,
disagree. Being props in their parents’ performance art has caused them
lasting psychological damage. Now adults, Annie and Buster are trying
to forge lives on their own, Annie as a movie actress and Buster as a
writer.
Buster is seriously injured on a reporting assignment and returns to
his parents’ Tennessee home to recuperate. Annie, recently humiliated
on a movie set, joins him. A short time later, their parents disappear.
Were Caleb and Camille victims of a crime, or was this another of their
stunts?
Children ruin art, Caleb’s mentor had told him, but in the Fang family,
art almost ruined children. Caleb and Camille seem detestable for
putting art before their own offspring, yet their genuine commitment to
art merits a measure of respect. Is the answer moderation, or should
fanatics not have children? A first novel, The Family Fang is both hilarious
and poignant.
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