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02.25: Matt Sumell

2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar

In Matt Sumell's blazing, heartbreaking first book, Making Nice (Henry Holt & Company), our rage-filled hero Alby is flailing wildly against the world around him. It seems he is the angriest young man in the history of angry young men, and in each of these stories, we watch him run at life with a breakneck speed. But after the loss of his mother to a long battle with cancer, swirling at the center of Alby's fury is a grief so big, so life-shatteringly profound, it might swallow him whole. Alby drinks, screws, and jokes his way through his pain, but when we least expect it, his heartache, his anger, his kindness, and his capacity for good bubble up. One part Junot Díaz and one part Barry Hannah, Making Nice is a naked, hysterical rendering of a heart sorting through its broken pieces, clinging to laughter and rage to survive. With prose that is by turns mirthful, jagged, and devastatingly raw, Sumell delivers a powerful, full-steam-ahead debut that will wrestle you to the ground and keep you laughing even as you try to catch your breath. A gut-punch of a debut about love, grief, and family, Making Nice marks the arrival of a brilliant, infectious new voice for our age.

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