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The Nix

Written by: Nathan Hill
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
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Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys 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. 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 America. 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.

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.

©2016 Nathan Hill (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Action & Adventure Dark Humour Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Political

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"The best new writer of fiction in America. The best." (John Irving)
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The Nix was a wonderful piece of fiction. The book starts off on lighter notes with many elements of humour before slowly delving into the main plot. Character descriptions are rich, and their stories are wonderful. Ari Fliakos does a spectacular job at the narration.

Wonderful book, very well written

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This is the first 15 hours book I've listened to and I had a lot of fun.

that was an enjoyable story

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