Hailed as "indelible" in "Entertainment Weekly's" list of "20 Books We'll Read in 2015," this 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 [...]
This is a gut-punch of a debut about love and loss, and fighting for - and with - the only family you've got. Alby's flailing wildly against the world around him. He punches his sister (she deserved it), gets drunk and picks fights (all deserved), defends defenceless creatures large and small, and s[...]