'This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is
relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan
Dee has your number' Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party In
Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an
unnamed male narrator has hit the road with a large sum of cash
stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding
security cameras, he drives until he meets a city where his past is
unlikely to track him down. Renting a room from a less-than-stable
landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask
questions, he seems to have escaped his former self. But can he? In
a story that moves with swift dark humour and insight, Dee takes us
through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of
privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of
his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his
new self - simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility - grow
shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbours in
their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of
a crime thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee
unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his
developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act.
Sugar Street is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely
look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing and
surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his
own troubling footprint and start his life over.
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