Sexology

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growing

into a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of an

unconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family and

how it shapes us--for better or worse.Sexology follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, where

nonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reigns

supreme. The Crickholme siblings youthful exploits take them on myriad paths: a hermetic

psychic, a dog trainer, an ice cream purveyoress, a missing person. Between memories,

factoids, letters, and old photographs, Matty investigates how their offbeat rearing made them

the adults they became, and how fantasy and convention collide.

Alex Kovacs's writings have received acclaim for their invention, wit, and astute observations of

our absurd world. Sexology brings this intellectual playfulness to the story of the Crickholmes

with a unique prose that evokes the complex emotional landscapes of W.G. Sebald's novels and

the sometimes-gentle, sometimes-devastating style of Susanna Clarke. The result is an

entrancing, incomparable medley.