Shy
by Max Porter
Buy on AmazonShy, a troubled teenage boy, wanders into the night, listening to the voices in his head and considering the weighty question of his future. He is escaping Last Chance, a home for disturbed young men. Navigating his night terrors and his past, in an old house on a dilapidated estate, Shy seeks new forms of hope-- and perhaps a new beginning. -- adapted from jacket
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"Max Porter, the brilliant British author of experimental novels Grief is the Thing With Feathers , Lanny , and The Death of Francis Bacon , will return with Shy , the story of a troubled teenager escaping from a home for “very disturbed young men.” Porter consistently breaks new and interesting ground in his formally inventive, emotionally vibrant novels. Unmissable. You may also be interested to hear that R. F. Kuang, the author of many extremely popular fantasy novels including Babel and the Poppy War sequences, has made her first foray into literary fiction with Yellowface , which explores questions of cultural appropriation."
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