Four generations of Dufore women try to make the best of their odd circumstances as they put up with Gran Marie's insomnia, Uncle Ab's tendency toward spontaneous combustion, Rich's second sight, and Paul's transformation into a fish. Reprint....
Publisher's Weekly: A first novel packed with this much mesmerizing craziness is a rarity. A tale spanning four generations of the Dufore family of rural Esperance, Vt., Wilber's novel seems to have caromed off such influences as Twain, Vonnegut, Fau...