The Family Law
- ISBN-10
- 1459602595
- ISBN-13
- 9781459602595
- Category
- Australian wit and humor
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09-20
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com
- Author
- Benjamin Law
Description
Benjamin Law manages to be scatological, hilarious and heartbreaking all at the same time. Every sentence fizzes like an exploding fireball of energy.' - Alice Pung' A vivid, gorgeously garish, Technicolor portrait of a family. It's impossible not to let oneself go along for the ride and emerge at the book's end enlightened, touched, thrilling with laughter.' - Marieke Hardy Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide; Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions; Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his childhood dreams of Home and Away stardom come to nothing? What are his chances of finding love? Hilarious and moving, The Family Law is a linked series of tales from a wonderful new Australian talent.
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