came out ten years ago it's a strange tale of two sisters who take a trip to their father's homeland bugg area accompanied by their father's ashes and there's a lot of black humor in that to his all resident but when david leavitt's to explain will. family vacation is so stressful especially when one of you is just been dug up from underground and the other one won't stop playing. the father in the bit in the novel apostle has been buried in germany for decades until an old friend decides to have his urn and the urns of a bunch of other people brought back to their homeland borg area the man's two daughters joined the mass funeral procession of nineteen hearses. for the sisters it's a chance to discover their roots but as far as they're concerned the roots are rocking they call book areas the landscape filthy the buildings hideous and the people there seems to be only one code available for each of the sexes the women signalize we are whores and the men we are brutal we haven't come across one dressed woman or one man and a suit on the entire trip author's ability child own father was fro