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Read ReviewsMeet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art.
by Sam Lipsyte
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsProbing many themesor, perhaps, anxietiesincluding work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often...
by Jonathan Tropper
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bindwhether we like it or not.
by Sean Wilsey
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.
by Cheryl Peck
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsPeck unfolds these biographical stories with a healthy sense of humor and intelligent wit exploring the themes of family, growing up, love and loss.
by Augusten Burroughs
Published Jun 2003
Read ReviewsThe true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.
by David Henry Sterry
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsThe funny, touching story of a sweet, wide-eyed son of Seventies Suburbia who spends a year as a teenage sex worker servicing rich, lonely women in Beverly Hills. A gripping story that explores what it means to suffer through the underbelly of the American Dream. And make it out alive.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
Published Feb 2001
Read Reviews'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow experience these emotions all at once.'
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