During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searches for a job, the whereabouts of his vanished drug-addicted guardian, and meaning in the America of the Trump years in this insightful novel from the acclaimed author of Sip.
Through the voice of its unforgettable protagonist--charismatic, confused, searching, by turns cynical and naïve, wise and impulsive-- Opioid, Indiana pierces to the heart of our moment..
With empathy and insight, Carr explores what it\'s like to be a high school kid in the age of Trump--a time of economic inequality, addiction, Confederate flags, and mass shootings.
His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals--encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening.
Riggle, who\'s been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself.
It\'s Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday.
Now his uncle is missing, probably on a drug binge.
Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle\'s girlfriend after the death of his parents.
It is a book you won\'t soon forget.
Full of gorgeous language and wild insights.--Nick Flynn Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana\'s Opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr\'s timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place in the world--and come up with $800 rent--is at once a moving rumination on the hopeful power of story and a harrowing insight into modern America.
During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searches for a job, the whereabouts of his vanished drug-addicted guardian, and meaning in the America of the Trump years in this insightful novel from the acclaimed author of Sip
