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The Nix

Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn`t seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she`s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel`s help.As Samuel begins to excavate his mother`s – and his country`s – history, Nathan Hill`s The Nix moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, back to Chicago in 1968. Finally we arrive in wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother – a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.

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