Gabe Habash is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark. Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Lifeįoxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. About the Book A troubled college wrestler in North Dakota falls in love and becomes increasingly unhinged during his final season.
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