Hundred-Year Flood, The

By Matthew Salesses

Book Overview

In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang , Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood . This beautiful and dreamlike debut follows twenty-two-year-old Tee as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle's suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. His life intertwines with Pavel Picasso, a painter famous for revolution; Katka, his equally alluring wife; and Picasso's partner--a giant of a man with an American name. In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477829547
• ISBN13: 9781477829547
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Little a
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"