{"product_id":"9781509807857-the-nix","title":"The Nix","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e No. 5 bestseller. A gloriously ambitious, witty and deeply touching debut novel of fifty years of America and of American radical protest. The story of a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' –\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Irving\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.' – \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Hill's brilliant debut,\u003ci\u003e The Nix\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Outstanding' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e– John Boyne, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451489137014,"sku":"9781509807857","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27437433.jpg?v=1760462727","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781509807857-the-nix","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}