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. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. 'The best new writer of fiction in America.
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