From the much acclaimed author of MISLAID and THE WALLCREEPER, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families?both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create?a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father’s childhood home.“She wills her body to be equally wraithlike. Not sodden, not heavy, not dead, but filled with crackling, electric life, like a stale Marlboro on fire.”Unemployed business major, Penny, has rebelled against her family her whole life – by being the conventional one. Her mother was a member of a South American tribe