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Zusatztext Wilson's novel is! more than anything else! a comment on social construct. On top of looking at outward factors to blame! this novel also asks us to look inward.. Wilson's intriguing! dystopian world leaves us with one moral that rings true for all families: whether created or born into - they are never perfect! but they are everything. Informationen zum Autor Kevin Wilson is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Family Fang ! named a best book of the year by Time ! People ! Salon ! and Esquire . His story collection! Tunneling to the Center of the Earth ! received an Alex Award from the American Library Association as well as the Shirley Jackson Award. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony! Yaddo! and the KHN Center for the Arts. He teaches fiction at the University of the South in Sewanee! Tennessee! where he lives with his wife and two sons. Klappentext PRAISE FOR THE FAMILY FANG ‘Funny, smart, ingenious, moving, altogether great’ Nick Hornby ‘A comedy, a tragedy, a tour-de-force. I have never seen anything like it before. Genius’ Ann Patchett ‘It’s The Royal Tenenbaums meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I’d call The Family Fang a guilty pleasure but it’s too damn smart. Here, finally, is a much needed reminder that astute fiction can still be a total blast’ Hannah Pittard ‘Wilson writes with the studied quirkiness of George Saunders or film-maker Wes Anderson, and there’s some genuine warmth beneath all the surface eccentricity’ Entertainment Weekly ‘Funny and off-kilter . . . What could devolve into little more than slapstick becomes, in Wilson’s skilled hands and, let’s face it, somewhat strange imagination, a rich and textured read’ Chicago Tribune From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang - a warm-hearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms. Zusammenfassung Aren't the best families the ones we make for ourselves? Isabelle Pool is fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or family to fall back on, she's left searching. So when she's offered a space in The Infinite Family Project - a utopian ideal funded by an eccentric billionaire - she accepts. Isabelle joins nine other couples, all with children the same age as her newborn son, to raise their children as one extended family in a spacious, secluded compound in Tennessee. But can this experiment really work - or is their 'perfect little world' destined to go horribly wrong? ...
