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In this rousingly pell-mell debut novel, the tender arc of a bildungsroman is nearly squelched by a backdrop of epic family farce. The "fantastic Flanagans" of Squibnocket Beach suffer from "compulsive vividness." They brawl and squall without consequences, kept afloat by money "falling from the sky like ticker tape," courtesy of a disapproving and distant media-mogul patriarch. Ma is an aspiring Marxist insurrectionist ("Ma collected Commies the way other women ...