Young God by Katherine Faw Morris
Nikki has been thirteen forever. She drives a stolen car up the Carolina hills to her father's trailer with a backpack full of pills. She is determined to make her way into his life. Drug deals, pimp wars, chicken shit, ecstasy. Soon Nikki learns what's required of her to survive - and to prevail - in this world. Young God introduces a debut novelist with a startling control of language. Scene by harrowing scene, with flashes of brilliant imagery and terse, tense dialogue, this book brings readers into the lost wilds of America. Just as Nikki fights her way into power among dangerous men, Katherine Faw Morris invades stylistic territory usually dominated by male writers - and demands attention.
Strange and remarkable.. A powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity... Likely to leave even the sturdiest stunned -- Eimear McBride * Guardian *
This book is so clean and dirty. It is charged white space: these pages happen to you and now you're awakening, groping groggily to reconstruct. Get mixed up by it. Enter the single-wide and find some ecstasy with Faw -- Richard Hell, writer and musician (Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids)
Radical and shocking... The harsh light of the south hammers down as the story unfolds with disorienting swiftness, which lends it a dream-like quality... augmented by a spare lyricism. A remarkable debut -- Peter Carty * Financial Times *
A stark, seductive coming-of-age tale... 22,000 raw, tense, and poetically incandescent words. Reading it is like having a bottle rocket go off in your hands... An adrenaline rush of a debut * Elle *
A poetic, grim and beautifully dark novel about backwoods violence and horror recounted in a numbed and laconic voice. Morris writes with splendid economy, chapters short as contes, and plenty of slashing insights on the rough world of throwaway lives and varieties of wrong -- Daniel Woodrell, author * Winter's Bone *
Terrifying and great. Katherine Faw Morris's style is singular and ferocious and Nikki is one of the toughest, most electrifying, most unforgettable heroines I have ever encountered. This a furious blaze of a book that will rough you up and reorder your sense of the world. Read it -- Laura van den Berg, author * The Isle of Youth *
A short, sharp, brutal kick to the guts in fictional form - a stripped-back cliff jump of a story, brutally poetic in its minimalist vision of violence and destruction -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *
Like a bullet, like a bolt of lightning, like a speeding car, this debut novel goes faster and harder than anything you're likely to read this year. Welcome to an astonishing talent, and an unforgettable heroine -- Stacey D'Erasmo, author * The Art of Intimacy *
This is the best first novel I've read since Fight Club... Raw, spare and goddamned poetic, this badass debut will haunt you -- Frank Bill, author * Crimes in Southern Indiana *
A monstrous, visceral debut... The writing - my God, it just blazes across the page with an unparalleled frenzy... I read this in one frantic go, it is impossible to tear your eyes away from it... Necessary reading * The Book Catapult blog *
An atomic sourball of literary noir... A great debut from a writer to watch * CriminalElement.com *
A daredevil thrill -- Hepzibah Anderson * Observer *
Morris's punchy and unwavering style is absolutely of a piece with her unforgiving environment of post-Palhniuk white-trash girl-power -- Ash Smyth * Literary Review *
Brutal and wonderful -- Eimear McBride 'Books of the Year' * TLS *
Young God is the kind of single-sitting read that leaves you haemorrhaging * BookSlut blog *
Spare [and] piquant.... [with a] taut, concise plot * The Millions *
You are unlikely to read anything quite like this novel this year. Stark but stunning... it lingers for weeks -- ‘Ones to Watch’ * Bookseller *
A powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity -- Eimear McBride * Guardian *
Brutal, uncompromising stuff... [with] its stark, unadorned style and gritty subject matter * Herald *
This book is so clean and dirty. It is charged white space: these pages happen to you and now you're awakening, groping groggily to reconstruct. Get mixed up by it. Enter the single-wide and find some ecstasy with Faw -- Richard Hell, writer and musician (Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids)
Radical and shocking... The harsh light of the south hammers down as the story unfolds with disorienting swiftness, which lends it a dream-like quality... augmented by a spare lyricism. A remarkable debut -- Peter Carty * Financial Times *
A stark, seductive coming-of-age tale... 22,000 raw, tense, and poetically incandescent words. Reading it is like having a bottle rocket go off in your hands... An adrenaline rush of a debut * Elle *
A poetic, grim and beautifully dark novel about backwoods violence and horror recounted in a numbed and laconic voice. Morris writes with splendid economy, chapters short as contes, and plenty of slashing insights on the rough world of throwaway lives and varieties of wrong -- Daniel Woodrell, author * Winter's Bone *
Terrifying and great. Katherine Faw Morris's style is singular and ferocious and Nikki is one of the toughest, most electrifying, most unforgettable heroines I have ever encountered. This a furious blaze of a book that will rough you up and reorder your sense of the world. Read it -- Laura van den Berg, author * The Isle of Youth *
A short, sharp, brutal kick to the guts in fictional form - a stripped-back cliff jump of a story, brutally poetic in its minimalist vision of violence and destruction -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *
Like a bullet, like a bolt of lightning, like a speeding car, this debut novel goes faster and harder than anything you're likely to read this year. Welcome to an astonishing talent, and an unforgettable heroine -- Stacey D'Erasmo, author * The Art of Intimacy *
This is the best first novel I've read since Fight Club... Raw, spare and goddamned poetic, this badass debut will haunt you -- Frank Bill, author * Crimes in Southern Indiana *
A monstrous, visceral debut... The writing - my God, it just blazes across the page with an unparalleled frenzy... I read this in one frantic go, it is impossible to tear your eyes away from it... Necessary reading * The Book Catapult blog *
An atomic sourball of literary noir... A great debut from a writer to watch * CriminalElement.com *
A daredevil thrill -- Hepzibah Anderson * Observer *
Morris's punchy and unwavering style is absolutely of a piece with her unforgiving environment of post-Palhniuk white-trash girl-power -- Ash Smyth * Literary Review *
Brutal and wonderful -- Eimear McBride 'Books of the Year' * TLS *
Young God is the kind of single-sitting read that leaves you haemorrhaging * BookSlut blog *
Spare [and] piquant.... [with a] taut, concise plot * The Millions *
You are unlikely to read anything quite like this novel this year. Stark but stunning... it lingers for weeks -- ‘Ones to Watch’ * Bookseller *
A powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity -- Eimear McBride * Guardian *
Brutal, uncompromising stuff... [with] its stark, unadorned style and gritty subject matter * Herald *
KATHERINE FAW MORRIS is a native of northwest North Carolina. She studied at Columbia and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two pitbulls. Young God is her debut novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847088895 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847088899 |
| Title | Young God |
| Author | Katherine Faw Morris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2015-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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