An exquisite, blistering debut novel.
Three brothers tear their way through childhoodâ smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are[...]
In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.
""We the Animals" is a dark jewel of a book. It's heartbreaking. It's beautiful. It resemble[...]
Three brothers tear their way through childhood-smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn-he's Puerto Rican, she's white-barely out [...]
A spellbinding debut novel; three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York.[...]