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Victorineis thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newlysexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of hermind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere,for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s olderbrother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing,mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L’Hommedieu, a paterfamilias whocollects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison,his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze.

And Maude Hutchins’s Victorine?It’s a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and societywith wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot ofthe great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literarymaverick whose work looks forward to—and sometimes outstrips—DavidLynch’s Blue Velvet and the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.