What We Are (Hardcover)
Description
A blazing and authentic new literary voice, Malae--a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Literary Award--has written a bold debut novel. "What We Are" tells a raw and powerful, bullet-fast story that looks at contemporary America through the eyes of one disillusioned son.
Praise for What We Are…
“A rollercoaster ride inside the haunted house of American multi cultural sin and shame. Violent and smart and funny. I am excited by this new writer.”—Sherman Alexie
“The voice is gold.”—Publishers Weekly
“Peter Nathaniel Malae is the real deal. He’s like a young Nelson Algren or Richard Wright, one of those writers who can hit with both hands.”—Russell Banks
“Gives flesh and voice to a ‘Me Generation’ poet of mixed heritage and tortured outlook.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Malae possesses a prodigious command of the masculine American idiom and its ironies. Paul is that rarest of literary creatures these days: a hard-living, oft-brawling, culturestraddling, foul-mouthed juggernaut, one who’s as liable to throw a punch as he is to break your heart.”—Rattawut Lapcharoensap
“Compelling . . . [A] deeply felt portrait of an outsider who is appalled by much of what he sees around him in a surreal Silicon Valley populated largely by grotesques. Malae’s writing is . . . filled with allusions and aphorisms that range from Nietzsche to Kerouac to crystal-meth zombies.”—Booklist
“Malae’s writing is palpably masculine . . . as if you can see the muscles bulging in his arms as he writes.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Readers who enjoy . . . Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis should definitely try Malae.”—Library Journal
