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"Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family." --Financial Times "The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won't soon shake." --Chicago Review of Books
From a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past We meet our ill-tempered protagonist--the titular "brat"--at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. Gabriel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to ï¬nish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents' house to clear it out for sale. In fragments and ï¬gments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he ï¬nds unï¬nished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and ï¬gures emerge--perhaps directly from the novel's embedded ï¬ctions--but despite his compromised state, Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the auto-ï¬ctional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, Brat crackles with dead-pan humor and delightfully taut prose, heralding the next generation of ï¬ction--formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation.
From a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past We meet our ill-tempered protagonist--the titular "brat"--at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. Gabriel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to ï¬nish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents' house to clear it out for sale. In fragments and ï¬gments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he ï¬nds unï¬nished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and ï¬gures emerge--perhaps directly from the novel's embedded ï¬ctions--but despite his compromised state, Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the auto-ï¬ctional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, Brat crackles with dead-pan humor and delightfully taut prose, heralding the next generation of ï¬ction--formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation.
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