num_pages: 168
description: The three of thema twelve-year-old boy his older brother their fatherhave won the war: the fathers term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque eager to begin again united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school join basketball teams make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little misstepsthe dead-eyed absentmindedness the late night noises the comings and goings of increasingly odd charactersbecome worrisome and the boys find themselves watching their father change grow erratic then dangerous.Set in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world One of the Boys conveys with propulsive prose and extraordinary compassion a young boys struggle to hold onto the pieces of his shattered family. Tender moving and beautiful Daniel Magariels masterful debut is a story of resilience and survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the speed of We the Animals One of the Boys is among the most remarkable debut novels youll ever read.
language: English
title: One of the Boys
publisher: Scribner