Brat - Gabriel Smith
Category: Horror
Tags: Horror, Fantasy, Adults
Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.Financial Times, The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you wont soon shake.Chicago Review of Books, From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past, We meet our ill-tempered protagonistthe storys titular bratat a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. The Gabriel of the novel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents house to clear it out for sale. Here, the clichs end., Gabriel has trouble delivering on his promises: as the moldy, overgrown house deteriorates around him, so does his own health, and large sheets of his skin begin to peel from his body at a terrifying rate. In fragments and fig
