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Brother Brontë
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta
"Flores's style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it's as if he feels he's inventing literature for the first time." --Mark Leyner, The New York Times Book Review
"Flores's fiction possesses the aspect of a dream." --David L. Ulin, The Atlantic
"This crazy, cakey world-making of Fernando A. Flores is all of literature: wide, plaintive, melancholy, and full of feminist fellow joyousness and ways . . . Hated this world ending. I want more." --Eileen Myles
Two women fight to save their dystopian border town--and literature--in this gonzo near-future adventure.
The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's pockets.
Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Proserpina and Neftalí. One of Three Rivers' last literate citizens, Neftalí hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, Brother Brontë, is finally in Neftalí's possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick's forces, Neftalí and Proserpina, with the help of a wounded Bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city--and in the process, unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself.
An adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, Brother Brontë is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780374604165
EAN:
9780374604165
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
352
Authors:
Fernando A Flores
Publisher:
MCD
Published Date: 2025-11-02
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Boring book, and bad writing. I could barely get through two chapters. Everything is overly descriptive and the writers uses comparison sentences for every line. It was frustrating and annoying.
Vaguely saw the point from reading the entire book. Also, really didn’t enjoy the writing style. A real disappointment. Thanks!
This is a very strange story and is not a quick read
BEWARE! Do not waste your money and more importantly, don't waste your time on this pathetic excuse for a book. It's as if a high school sophomore wrote a story for 8th graders. The funny thing is, part of the storyline involves the shredding of books. And if ever a book needed shredding, this is it. I usually give books away after reading but in this case I ripped it up and tossed it so others won't suffer. I'll never purchase another book recommended by NYTime's reviewer Mark Leyner. Juvenile and pallid at best.
To be honest this did not start out as a favorite but it was interesting enough to keep me reading. Flores' writing reminded me of the work of Samuel R Delany, another challenging writer. I'm glad I stayed with it because more than a linear narrative of a post apocalyptic world Flores created the sense of such a world through the narrative flow and as you read on it occurs to you that this is our current world you're reading about.I read once that William Gibson found it harder to write about the near future because things are moving too fast. Today's fiction is tomorrow's front page news. Flores' has found a way to write about today as though it were the future.
