{"id":20004,"date":"2013-06-14T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=20004"},"modified":"2013-06-08T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:30:28","slug":"the-family-fang-by-kevin-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-family-fang-by-kevin-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/family-fang.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20029 alignleft\" alt=\"Family_Fang-Kevin_Wilson\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/family-fang.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/family-fang.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/family-fang.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>It is hard enough to be well-adjusted while raised under typical circumstances, but Annie (Child A) and Buster (Child B) spent their childhood as players in their parent&#8217;s mischief disguised as art (or is it art disguised as mischief?). \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">They have spent their adult years attempting to distance themselves from their famous artist parents, but when their new lives start to fall apart, they find themselves back under their parent&#8217;s roof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In his debut novel,\u00a0<\/span><em><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=%22the%20family%20fang%22&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Family Fang<\/a><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">, Kevin Wilson introduces us to the Fang family.\u00a0With disdain for traditional art forms, Caleb and Camille Fang choose unexpected public performance art as their medium and have included their children in all of their greatest pieces. When their children return home, Caleb and Camille plan one final performance, and Annie and Buster are participants whether they want to be or not. \u00a0The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">quirky story (think Wes Anderson meets\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Arrested Development)<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0is bolstered by flash-back chapters that help the reader better understand the character&#8217;s motives and gives clues to the final outcome. \u00a0Exceptionally written and a fun read, this book should please fans of Zadie Smith and Karen Russell.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard enough to be well-adjusted while raised under typical circumstances, but Annie (Child A) and Buster (Child B) spent their childhood as players in their parent&#8217;s mischief disguised as art (or is it art disguised as mischief?). \u00a0They have spent their adult years attempting to distance themselves from<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-family-fang-by-kevin-wilson\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[885,155,402,2299],"class_list":["post-20004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-art","tag-family","tag-fiction","tag-performance_art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5cE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20004"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20032,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions\/20032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}