Brat: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- &“Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.&” —Financial Times&“The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won&’t soon shake.&” —Chicago Review of BooksFrom a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his pastWe meet our ill-tempered protagonist—the titular &“brat&”—at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. Gabriel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents&’ house to clear it out for sale.In fragments and figments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he finds unfinished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and figures emerge—perhaps directly from the novel&’s embedded fictions—but despite his compromised state, Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the auto-fictional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, Brat crackles with dead-pan humor and delightfully taut prose, heralding the next generation of fiction—formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 320 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593656884
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780593656877, 9780593656891, 9780593864630, 9780593864647
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 07/22/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Gabriel Smith
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Horror, Literature and Fiction, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.