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Nathan Hill
Nathan Hill's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. THE NIX is his first novel. show more



Nathan Hill's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. THE NIX is his first novel.

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Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 5 years ago
Beautifully written, wonderfully narrated, filled with keen observations and credible interior monologues. Abandoned because it's too painful to watch the broken people and learn about the things that broke them. "The Nix" is the first book of my "20 for 20 reading Size Matterschallenge" :To Rea...
Dudewiththeface
Dudewiththeface rated it 7 years ago
My rating and reaction! The Nix
"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it 7 years ago
Holy cow this is a good book. There is much more to it than the story of a mother and the son she left. Different from all the other recent releases I've read, THE NIX is terrific. I may be easily impressed after the run of mediocrity I've read recently. We'll see how I feel in a year or so, but I t...
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Blah, Blah, Blah, Book Blog rated it 7 years ago
This was a terrific book, but it is, I thought, way too long. I am a fan of John Irving's quirky, sprawling novels , and this reminds me of them. However, listening to it (a 22-hour audio book!) I thought there were many times that descriptions, while wonderful, just went on and on. For example, whi...
Lenaribka
Lenaribka rated it 8 years ago
AudibleHonestly, this book has EVERYTHING I love: a COMPLICATED family history and how the old secrets that were locked behind ambiguous shrugs and half answers and vague abstractions and aphorisms come to light, bit by bit until all necessary fragments of an enigmatic jigsaw are put together. The...
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