Justin Torres

"From the bestselling, acclaimed, beloved author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collective"--

An exquisite, blistering debut novel Three brothers tear their way through childhood-smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn-he's Puerto Rican, she's white-and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and...