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A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. 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.
To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.
From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
著者簡介
NATHAN HILL's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, which awarded him its annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.
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評分刚刚开始看，作者描写的很贴合实际。比如萨缪尔父母因生活琐碎的对吵，萨缪尔对暗恋的心理活动和表现，都很传神。还有一段描写美国高速公路出口处的汽车加塞，都很活灵活现。 是一本了解美国当今社会生活的书，通过阅读，你可以了解到如今美国社会的一些玩法。比如让公司破产后...
評分“盲人摸象的故事里,通常被忽略的一点是,每个人的描述都正确无误。费伊无法理解，或许永远也不可能理解的是,在许多虚假自我的背后,并没有隐着一个真实的自我......那就是盲人摸象的关键所在:重点不在于他们是盲人,而是他们停止得太快,因此永远也不可能知道还有更大的真相需要把...
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首推Ari Fliakos的有聲書 每一個角色都有自己獨特的聲綫。politics family love friendship business gay/lesbian child abuse暢銷書的元素一應俱全 作者想用各個角色反映大時代下小人物的復雜內心 然而聯係卻很鬆散 比如Pwnage跟Laura Potsdam的部分縱然詼諧也極具現實意義但跟主題的聯係脆弱不堪一擊 Faye的人格跟盲人摸象的關係也很牽強。說爛尾的盆友們給作者一個自我剖白的機會也沒什麼錯吧。齣版時間對應美國大選時機簡直不要更精準！！
评分從去年讀到今年，終於把它讀完瞭。關於親情的部分真是看得我淚流滿麵，你最愛的人卻傷你最深，很多話無法說齣口，隻能forgive forgive forgive。這個主題也是，關於右派文化，關於消費時代，關於idealism and protests，切閤時事得讓人倒吸一口冷氣。最後一章爛尾是最大的遺憾。#1
评分All changes, real changes, will make you afraid at first.
评分從頭到第9章 Revolution 都很吸引人。可惜最後一章秒變議論文，前麵設瞭太多分主題要在最後一章給個說法，隻好藉助人物內心剖白瞭。
评分斷斷續續分瞭好幾次讀完。 前半段好瑣碎好漫長。後麵突然就超級精彩！
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