тАЬGabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.┬аBrat┬аis so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.тАЭ┬аRachel Connolly, author of┬аLazy City
'Iconic', Radio 1
'i've never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !' Charli XCX on┬аX,┬аformerly┬аTwitter
I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination
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GabrielтАЩs skin is falling off.
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His dad is dead.
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He owes his editor a novel.
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His girlfriend wonтАЩt answer his calls.
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Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, GabrielтАЩs sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parentsтАЩ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And thereтАЩs a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,┬аBrat┬аis a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.┬а
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From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.┬а
тАЬMessy with glitched realities and body horror,┬аBrat┬аbreathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as┬аInland Empire┬аand┬аUbik. ItтАЩs a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut IтАЩve read in ages.тАЭ Ed Park, author of┬аSame Bed Different Dreams
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тАЬGabriel SmithтАЩs prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.┬аBrat┬аis a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.тАЭ Jordan Castro, author of┬аThe Novelist
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тАЬGabriel SmithтАЩs jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegraceтАЩs sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a┬аPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man┬аfor a new, quaking generation.┬аBrat┬аwill unnerve and seduce you.тАЭ Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
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