'A deft punch of a novel from Jonathan Dee . . . [he] creates a
true page-turner out of simple materials and the result is a
troubling and stimulating look at real American life - at the fix
that materialism plus the information state has got us into. It's
also very funny' George Sanders 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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