A Signed First Edition Club Recommendation
"Nathan Hill’s The Nix is one of the most talked-about novels of the fall season. It’s big and sprawling, and filled to bursting with life. It grabbed me from the first page and didn’t let go until the last. According to a recent article in The New York Times, the story began as a family drama about a son abandoned by his mother, but over the years of writing it came to include much more: current American politics, the cyber world of gaming, academia, Norwegian mythology, social media, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the 1968 Democratic convention, and ‘60s counterculture. How he manages to fit all this in, and mix a very personal, intimate story with biting, truly hilarious satire is a mystery and a marvel."
Publisher Vintage
Publication Date 2017-05-02
Section New Titles - Paperback / Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Carole H.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781101970348
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book A Slate Top Ten Book “Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, in decades—not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.
