The Family Fang is now available through Audible.com as an audiobook, narrated by Therese Plummer.
Blossom Films, the production company of Nicole Kidman and Per Saari, have acquired the film rights to The Family Fang. Blossom Films produced the film Rabbit Hole, for which Nicole Kidman received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
Chapter 16, a wonderful website, focusing on the arts in Tennessee, has posted a review of The Family Fang, as well as an interview.
You can click here to read “Nurturing Weird Families in Tennessee” a profile of me in the New York Times, written by Julie Bosman. It covers The Family Fang and my own family and all the weird points in between.
The Family Fang just received a very kind review from Janet Maslin in the New York Times. Entertainment Weekly also reviewed the book, giving it a B+.
I’m also excited to report that the novel has been selected as an August Indie Next Pick by IndieBound.
The Family Fang was featured in BookPage and you can read the interview here.
The Family Fang has been selected by IndieBound for the August 2011 Indie Next List. Ann Patchett selected the novel as her summer reading pick in Time Magazine.
The Family Fang received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist. It was also selected as one of eleven “excellent novels for summer reading” by The Christian Science Monitor and a summer’s best read on NPR’s Morning Edition.
The Family Fang received a kind review from Library Journal, which you can read here. Early readers have also written about the novel here, here, here, and here. Laura van den Berg, author of the stunning collection What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, included The Family Fang in a list of the “10 Most Anticipated Books of 2011“.