
What We Are
Hardcover
Other Editions of This Title:
Paperback (3/8/2011)
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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
Grove Press, 9780802119070, 383pp.
Publication Date: March 3, 2010