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IN CASE we needed further confirmation that dysfunction is the norm, here is another American story of an anarchic family. Leslie Marshall's first novel is a set-up: part one, a careful assembling of elements that will erupt into song and dance in part two.
On a sixth-birthday fairground outing, Elray Mayhew witnesses the bizarre death of her parents - electrocuted during a boat trip through the Tunnel of Love.
Her two radically different uncles alter their lives to raise their orphaned niece. "Aunt" Ajax, a bewigged and stilettoed transvestite, tipples, weeps and carries on like a Tennessee Williams...