Author:Jason Starr
Let the hunt begin . . .
When Simon Burns is fired from his job without warning, he takes on the role of stay-at-home dad for his three-year-old son. But his reluctance pushes his already strained marriage to the limit. In the nestled playgrounds of the Upper West Side, Simon harbors a simmering rage at his boss's betrayal.
Things take a turn when he meets a tight-knit trio of dads at the playground. They are different from other men Simon has met, stronger and more confident, more at ease with the darker side of life- and soon Simon is lured into their mix. But after a guys' night out gets frighteningly out of hand, Simon feels himself sliding into a new nightmarish reality.
As he experiences disturbing changes in his body and his perceptions, he starts to suspect that when the guys welcomed him to their "pack", they were talking about much more than male bonding . . .
Jason Starr is hypnotically good
—— Lee ChildThe ultimate page turner
—— Michael ConnellyManhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humor in this sly urban fantasy thriller...Starr once again shows a real gift for satiric humor and capturing the contemporary New York scene
—— Publishers WeeklySouthern cadences resonate, imbuing Bitter In The Mouth with a warmth and wit that form a perfect foil for the Southern gothic undercurrents that propel it towards its gorgeous, heart-warming resolution
—— HeraldA revelation of wit and heart and stunning talent. Truong shades her classic coming of age tale with a magical ferocity that recalls Doctorow and Nabokov....a soulful hymn to the hands we fashion with the cards we're dealt
—— Jayne Anne PhillipsTruong's pen is a scalpel, laying perfect words down along that nerve until even the happiest reader understands what it means to forever stand apart from your family and the larger society you inhabit...The novel's end is neither bitter nor sweet, but the perfect combination of both
—— Los Angeles TimesIf you liked The Shaking Woman by Siri Hustvedt, you'll love Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong... a tale of friendship, loyalty, love, family, and above all, the mysteries that make us who we are
—— TatlerWith a heroine who literally eats words, Truong is amply aware of the power of them... she wields her narrative like a quarterstaff, knocking readers' expectations right out from under them
—— Washington PostMonique Truong creates a world so subtle, mysterious, moving and sensory that it heightens our consciousness of those qualities in our own. Bitter in the Mouth is the rare novel that makes one life story unique and universal at the same time
—— Gloria SteinemBe prepared for a full range of tastes of life in Bitter in the Mouth: friendship, loyalty, love, family, and above all, the mysteries at every corner of one's history that make us who we are. Monique Truong is a great observer and a beautiful writer
—— Yiyun LiA terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life
—— Anna ChancellorA classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
—— Los Angeles TimesA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read
—— Boston GlobeA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well
—— NewsweekIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power
—— The New Yorker
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