Making Nice: A Novel in Stories

Making Nice: A Novel in Stories

Meet Alby, the heartbroken antihero at the center of Matt Sumellâ€™s ferocious, funny, and wrenching debut Making Nice. Fueled by heartache, fury, and the occasional pain pill from his motherâ€™s leftover stash, Alby is flailing wildly as he tries (and mostly fails) to cope with his motherâ€™s death. From his hometown on the Great South Bay to a sailboat in a Los Angeles marina, he stalks the perimeters of calamity: he punches his sister; gets drunk; picks fights; and spews insults at children, slow drivers, old ladies, and every single surviving member of his family. But itâ€™s in the rare moments of connectionâ€•training an abandoned bird up for combat, commiserating with a toddler in a breakfast joint, spoon-feeding his grandmother gelatinized milkâ€•that Alby begins to see a way to survive his pain. With unforgettable style and force and an â€œingenuous humanity that makes every page feel newâ€ (The Guardian), Matt Sumellâ€™s blistering debut blurs the line between fighting for and fighting with the only family youâ€™ve got.
Country USA
Brand St. Martins Press-3PL
Manufacturer Picador
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-02-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781250081582

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