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A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a more intimidating figure, but somehow the underachieving photographer manages to bluff his way to a friendship with the paterfamilias. With his feet under the table at the beautiful Sigerius farmhouse, Aaron feels part of the family. A perfect family. Until, that is, things start to go wrong in a very big way. A cataclysmic explosion in a firework factory, the advent of internet pornography, the reappearance of a forgotten murderer and a jet-black wig-all play a role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan...and of Aaron's fragile psyche.
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Bonita Avenue, Peter Buwalda, Jonathan Reeder
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- Bonita Avenue
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Buwalda, Jonathan Reeder
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 538
- ISBN10
- 1908968176
- ISBN13
- 9781908968173
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Relationships, Murders, School, Death, Secrets, Literary Fiction, Mysterious, Mysteries, Violence, America, Family relationships, Dutch Literature, Murderers, Lies, Netherlands, Mathematicians
- Original title
- Bonita avenue
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a more intimidating figure, but somehow the underachieving photographer manages to bluff his way to a friendship with the paterfamilias. With his feet under the table at the beautiful Sigerius farmhouse, Aaron feels part of the family. A perfect family. Until, that is, things start to go wrong in a very big way. A cataclysmic explosion in a firework factory, the advent of internet pornography, the reappearance of a forgotten murderer and a jet-black wig-all play a role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan...and of Aaron's fragile psyche.