Omnivores tells the story of young Estee Kraft, dutiful daughter and prisoner in her own home--a home her megalomaniac father Bill turns into an armed camp after he secedes from the United States. The other men who come into Estee's life are Pete Magnus, a vacuous real estate agent who buys her from her father, and Little Bill, her terrible toddling son, a cannibal baby who eats everything from tortilla chips to his own toenail. Estee's journey from the Kraft family compound in rural California to an L.A. penthouse and finally a golf resort in Florida is a satirical coming-of-age novel that sends up Americana of all kinds, from the right to bear arms to parenting classes and retirement villages.
