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Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter
Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter (Hardcover)
Description
A smart, darkly funny, yet poignant debut novel about coming of age without coming undone.
Seventeen-year-old George Flynn-an all-around decent guy-has just moved with his family to Des Moines, a place where he knows no one and is pretty much nobody. Despite this inauspicious start to his junior year, he soon finds his niche, falling in with the unique, enchant
About the Author
Michael J. White was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, though he did spend a few formative years in Des Moines. He is a Columbia MFA graduate and now lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter…
"A blood-red first love story, a raw dealing of tragedy and its aftermath, and a wild spin through the lust and grief-addled mind of one of the most honest and deliriously inventive narrators I''ve ever read. Weeping Underwater will leave you hoarse from laughing, weak in the knees, possibly craving Iowa State Fair pickles, and helplessly in love." – Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves