New PDF release: Alternative Atlanta

In a humorous, poignant, splendidly unique debut novel, the writer of the acclaimed short-story assortment Trouble with Girls weaves a beguiling story of fathers and sons, sons and lovers…and one unforgettable summer season in a tender man’s life–somewhere among a previous he doesn’t comprehend and a destiny he’s now not able to live….

ALTERNATIVE ATLANTA

For thirty-year-old Gerald Brinkman, existence in Atlanta within the yr 1996–the summer season of the Olympics–doesn’t believe part undesirable. Writing experiences of basement rock bands for another paper, Gerald has conscientiously shunned getting a true task, whereas gazing his outdated associates from grad tuition begin careers, marriages, and affairs–often with one another. yet during this one life-changing summer time, whatever is ready to take place that would shake Gerald out of his complacency perpetually.

Gerald’s father, his incredible, vagabond, and completely unhelpful father, desires to come and stick with him “for a while.” Ever considering that adolescence, Gerald has attempted to bury his dating together with his father below a lifetime of rigorously crafted unsuitable turns. And now Paul Brinkman has proven up with trash luggage choked with assets, a scientific drawback, and an insufferable confession to make. yet Gerald understands something needless to say: He doesn’t are looking to listen it. try out as he may possibly to prevent it, the longer term is bearing down on him. a task is being dangled in manhattan. A mystery from his earlier is ready to be published. An ex-girlfriend is without notice sending combined indications. And in a single second in a single summer time within the urban of Atlanta, every thing is set to alter without end. whilst it does, Gerald goes to have a complete new imaginative and prescient of who he's, who his father and pals are, and what he needs to do next.

An exhilarating and touching novel approximately relatives and flirtations, turning out to be up and letting pass, Alternative Atlanta brilliantly captures a time of existence while every little thing turns out attainable and most unlikely whilst. it's a paintings of striking storytelling from a author of big gifts.

From the Hardcover edition.