eBook - ePub

Making Nice

Name: Making Nice
ISBN: 9781627790949

A Novel in Stories

Matt Sumell,

238 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Making Nice

A Novel in Stories

Matt Sumell,

About this book

Named a book of the year by BUSTLE and ELECTRIC LITERATURE
"Alby is Holden Caulfield in the Internet age..." -- Los Angeles Times
Hailed as "indelible" by Entertainment Weekly, a "cringe-inducingly funny" ( The Wall Street Journal) gut-punch of a debut about love, grief, and family "unleashes one of the most comically arresting voices this side of Sam Lipsyte's Homeland" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)
In Matt Sumell's blazing first book, our hero Alby flails wildly against the world around him—he punches his sister (she deserved it), "unprotectos" broads (they deserved it and liked it), gets drunk and picks fights (all deserved), defends defenseless creatures both large and small, and spews insults at children, slow drivers, old ladies, and every single surviving member of his family. In each of these stories Alby distills the anguish, the terror, the humor, and the strange grace—or lack of—he experiences in the aftermath of his mother's death. Swirling at the center of Alby's rage is a grief so big, so profound, it might swallow him whole. As he drinks, screws, and jokes his way through his pain and heartache, Alby's anger, his kindness, and his capacity for good bubble up when he (and we) least expect it. Sumell delivers "a naked rendering of a heart sorting through its broken pieces to survive.*"
Making Nice is a powerful, full-steam-ahead ride that will keep you laughing even as you try to catch your breath; a new classic about love, loss, and the fine line between grappling through grief and fighting for (and with) the only family you've got.
*Mark Richard

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