Description Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy\'s Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of Violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.
McCarthy\'s flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed Like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fu.
Description Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy\'s Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of Violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being