{"title":"Nathan Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathan Hill’s novels explore the complexities of contemporary life with sharp wit and insightful character portraits. His work often delves into themes of memory, identity, and the elusive nature of happiness, inviting readers on thoughtful journeys through interconnected lives and unexpected twists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a blend of humour and poignancy, \u003cem\u003eThe Nix\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWellness\u003c\/em\u003e showcase Hill’s talent for crafting rich, engaging narratives that challenge and entertain. 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Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home renovation hysteria, \u003cem\u003eWellness\u003c\/em\u003e mines the absurdities of modern technology and modern love to reveal profound, startling truths about intimacy and connection. 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A grand entertainment\"\u003c\/em\u003e Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeet Samuel Andresen-Anderson - stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically-motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided country. 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. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain - she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Samuel begins to excavate his mother's - and his country's - history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during the Great Recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and back to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. Finally, the trail leads him to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix that his mother told him about as a child, a spirit that can take the shape of a white horse, luring children to their deaths. In these places, Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eThe Nix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Nix\u003c\/em\u003e will go down as one of the best debut books of the year.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Dallas Morning News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Hill skillfully blends humour and darkness, imagery and observation. ... [a] rich, lively take on American social conflict, real and invented, over the last half-century.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This looks to be the debut of an important new writer, able to variously make readers laugh out loud while providing a melancholy, resonant tale.\"\u003c\/em\u003e USA Today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Pay attention. This is what a Great American Novel looks like. ... Nathan Hill is a literary powerhouse who will deservedly earn many comparisons to John Irving and Jonathan Franzen.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Benjamin Percy, author of \u003cem\u003eRed Moon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wilding\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Once in a while a novel arrives at the perfect moment to reflect, skewer, and provide context for the world as we know it. 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