The Ruins of California

For the Ruin family in 1970s California as described by the precocious young Inez life is complex. Her father Paul is self-obsessed intrusive and brilliant. He''s also twice divorced leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul''s bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves at once bold and innocent creative and chaotic obsessed and liberating.