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The "wonderfully talented" (New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families--both the ones we're born into and the ones we create--a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life--by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic "healing center. " And she's never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm's previous marriage--one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked) , one a photographer on a distant tropical island.