"THE NIX" by Nathan Hill
Recommended by Lynn M. Piotrowicz
9/27/2016
GENIUS. (You should read that as GENIUS PERIOD). Nathan Hill engages the reader early on when he introduces us to Samuel Andresen Anderson. He spins a yarn with complete with a gaggle of great characters reminiscent of the best of Irving, Russo, or Toole. He weaves their stories together in an outstanding narrative; all thrown in with more golden nuggets than in a deep fryer at McDonalds.
By definition, The NIX is… “Anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.” And let me tell you, when you finish this book you will feel that it has changed you in some fundamental way. “Why do the best things in life leave such deep scars?” Be it the Tarantino creative juices that flow after you read this, circuitous in one breath and blunt in the next or the darkness of a great Coen brothers’ script it WILL CHANGE YOU.
“How easily a simple façade can become your life, can become the truth of your life.” Reminiscent of Peter Dinklage and Leslie Jones in their SNL skit “Naked and Afraid,” Samuel and his mother Faye, orbit around each other like an anemic venn diagram from our elementary school mathematics class; READ MORE...