\'The best new writer of fiction in America.
Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she\'s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel\'s help.
As Samuel begins to excavate his mother\'s - and his country\'s - history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world..
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.
The best.\' - John IrvingNathan 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.
Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. \'The best new writer of fiction in America
