An over-educated, middle-class young man in a depressed, working-class town, twenty-seven-year-old Lamar Kerry faces a host of challenges as he deals with his mother's chronic illness, the disappointment in him of his father and girlfriend, the disappearance of his town's only Hispanic, who is missing and presumed dead, and the responsibilities of becoming an adult. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
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"An extraordinary account of what passes as ordinary life in an upstate New York community. Brock Clarke treats small-town controversy with wit and sympathy, and along the way he unravels conventional measures of self-worth. A confident, fierce, and hilarious novel with great emotional richness."
--Joanna Scott, author of Arrogance and Make Believe
"This is a smart, honest, funny, winning book. Extraordinary, really."
--Antonya Nelson, author of Talking in Bed and Nobody's Girl
Brock Clarke is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous reviews and journals, and his short-story collection, What We Won't Do, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. He lives with his wife and son in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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