BRAT: A Ghost Story
Gabriel Smith
αα·αα»ααΆ 2024 Β· Simon and Schuster
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βGabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.Β BratΒ is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.βΒ Rachel Connolly, author ofΒ Lazy City
'Iconic', Radio 1
'i've never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !' Charli XCX onΒ X,Β formerlyΒ Twitter
I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination
room.
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Gabrielβs 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 wonβt answer his calls.
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Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabrielβs sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parentsβ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And thereβs a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,Β BratΒ is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.Β
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From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.Β
βMessy with glitched realities and body horror,Β BratΒ breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air asΒ Inland EmpireΒ andΒ Ubik. Itβs a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut Iβve read in ages.β Ed Park, author ofΒ Same Bed Different Dreams
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βGabriel Smithβs prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.Β BratΒ is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.β Jordan Castro, author ofΒ The Novelist
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βGabriel Smithβs jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegraceβs sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is aΒ Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManΒ for a new, quaking generation.Β BratΒ will unnerve and seduce you.β Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
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'Iconic', Radio 1
'i've never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !' Charli XCX onΒ X,Β formerlyΒ Twitter
I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination
room.
Β
Gabrielβs skin is falling off.
Β
His dad is dead.
Β
He owes his editor a novel.
Β
His girlfriend wonβt answer his calls.
Β
Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabrielβs sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parentsβ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And thereβs a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,Β BratΒ is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.Β
Β
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.Β
βMessy with glitched realities and body horror,Β BratΒ breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air asΒ Inland EmpireΒ andΒ Ubik. Itβs a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut Iβve read in ages.β Ed Park, author ofΒ Same Bed Different Dreams
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βGabriel Smithβs prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.Β BratΒ is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.β Jordan Castro, author ofΒ The Novelist
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βGabriel Smithβs jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegraceβs sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is aΒ Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManΒ for a new, quaking generation.Β BratΒ will unnerve and seduce you.β Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
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