A novel about a family even more dysfunctional than the one you grew up in.    Will's Surreal Period is a richly satisfying tale - at times laugh-out-loud hilarious and at times deeply moving - that features a rollickingly dysfunctional family, a seemingly endless array of succulent foodstuffs, and a brain tumor that transforms a mediocre painter into a virtuoso. Now toss in a smidgen of BDSM and a few beguiling tidbits exploring brain chemistry and human evolution, and you have a story that will hook you fast and captivate you till the end.    'Will's Surreal Period proves why works of fiction are high art... . Robert Steven Goldstein deftly converts our raw human foibles into emotive entertainment and, as he does, reminds us, sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously, who we are.'  - MICHAEL J. COFFINO, award-winning author of Truth Is in the House