Making Nice - Hardcover

Sumell, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846558689 ISBN 13: 9781846558689

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2015

Synopsis

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 spews insults at children, slow drivers, old ladies and every single surviving member of his family.

With electrifying honesty and sly tenderness, Alby distills the anguish, the terror, the humour, and the strange grace he experiences in the aftermath of his mother’s death. But as he drinks, screws, and jokes his way through his pain and heartache, both his anger and his kindness bubble up when he, and we, least expect it.

About this title

About the Author

Matt Sumell is a graduate of University of California, Irvine’s MFA programme, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846558689
• ISBN 13: 9781846558689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240