First published 1978
Siblings Wilbur and Eliza Swain grow up in isolation, hidden away from an unsympathetic world due to their physical deformities. When Wilbur is separated from his resentful sister, he rises to become President of the United States, campaigning on a platform of uniting families. But his grand experiment to create a new social order is upended by a cataclysmic event that forever alters the course of their lives.
Genres: satire, literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, comedy, family-drama
Vibes: darkly-humorous, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: United States
288 pages · Paperback · Dial Press Trade Paperback