For readers of The Bee Sting and Pineapple Street, an irresistibly funny and poignant novel about a wealthy family who are confident in their goodness ? until their patriarch ruins their lives by giving all their money to charity. Meet the Candlewicks. Seventeen-year-old Evangeline (aka Dubbin) is a self-styled ?radical activist? who wants to change the world and despairs at the smug complacency of the rest of her family. Emil is a painfully shy fifteen-year-old math prodigy who has just begun dabbling in drugs. Their mother, Yara, arrives at airports four hours early and fears that AI and climate change will leave her children unemployed and unable to go outside for longer than ten minutes. And Arthur, the father, a hapless and always neutral man who can?t decide if he is a good person or a doormat ? forgiving and understanding, or...
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