The Family Fang, (Paperback)

from ImperfectCJ

Drowning in a sea of nonfiction, I clung to The Family Fang as I sputtered to the surface for a quick breath before being pulled under again by the book on meditation, the book on simple living, the book about colony collapse in honey bees, the book about the American who became a queen, the book...

from bluepigeon

I am temporarily stranded in Nashville, TN. Well, there aren't many great things I can say about Nashville (good bbq, inconvenient if you don't have a car [I don't have a car], some nice people, some annoying people, NOT "Athens of the South," whatever that may mean, though there is that giant re...

from msf59

"Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief." Meet the Fang family! Caleb and Camille and their children, Annie and Buster, known simply as Child A and Child B. The parents are performance artists, spending their lives, creating art out of bizarre everyday situations. The ...

from etxgardener

Camille and Caleb Fang are performance artists, specializing in disruptive acts in suburban shopping malls, who have incorporated their children Annie and Buster (know as Child A and Child B) into their art. The couple's surreal view of life, not surprisingly, has taken its toll on the children's...

from asuico

The concept was interesting; but the book itself wasn't knock-you-out amazing. At times it felt like the author was trying a little too hard to be funny, and it seemed like he could have made the book a bit meatier by expanding on Annie's and Buster's past lives, rather than condensing them into ...