An epic tale of human beings and invertebrates - and their sex lives - at the end of America's twentieth century.
In a polluted swamp )in better times the forest immortalised by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) live the happy, singing, all-American Slivenowicz family. Evangeline Slivenowicz and her five children - from five different fathers - live in blissful disharmony in a trailer by the impure waters of Lake Gitchee Gumee. At nineteen, Maud, the novel's heroine, is quite naturally obsessed with sex, power, money and how to get every single thing she wants. And she does it in a way that never involves too much violence or too many four-letter words.
On an encyclopedic diet of one Reader's Digest article a day, the Slivenowicz clan abandon their mosquito-infested pastoral idyll for Los Angeles, seducing a glittering cast of dentists, English lords, retired UPS stockholders and policemen along the way.
