Matthew Sharpe's debut collection, Stories from the Tube, was
praised in the "Los Angeles Times Book Review" for its "wildly
effective-and often touching-collisions of the banal and the
surreal." "Wired"called it "unsettling, lovely, creepy"; "Forbes
FYI" heralded it as a "remarkable fiction debut." In "Nothing Is
Terrible," his first novel, Sharpe astonishes once again with the
hallucinatory and hilarious story of a girl's unusual coming-of-age
and her search for love in unlikely places.
Her name is Mary White, though she prefers to be called Paul, the
name of her ill-fated twin brother. Bright, pragmatic, irreverent,
and orphaned, she is being raised by her clueless aunt and uncle
and fears she may be about to drown in dull suburban torpor-until
she falls in love with her new sixth-grade teacher, Miss Skip
Hartman. Devoted teacher and pupil run off to live in New York
City, where Mary receives a very unconventional education (art
dealers, drug dealers, boyfriends, epic piercings) and discovers
redemptive power in even the most unorthodox kind of love, all of
which she relates in the most Brontean gentle-reader tone.
In Nothing Is Terrible, Matthew Sharpe takes the bildungsroman and
turns it upside down and inside out. Like a breakneck sprint
through a Manhattan house of mirrors, it offers readers a giddily
literate tour of the resourceful mind of a singular young woman.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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