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Opioid, Indiana

Brian Allen Carr

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English
Soho Press Inc
17 September 2019
""Full of gorgeous language and wild insights.""-Nick Flynn

Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana's opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr's timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place in the world-and come up with $800 rent-is at once a moving rumination on the hopeful power of story and a harrowing insight into modern America. It is a book you won't soon forget.

Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of his parents. Now his uncle is missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals-encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening.

With empathy and insight, Carr explores what it's like to be a high school kid in the age of Trump-a time of economic inequality, addiction, Confederate flags, and mass shootings. Through the voice of its unforgettable protagonist-charismatic, confused, searching, by turns cynical and naive, wise and impulsive-Opioid, Indiana pierces to the heart of our moment.
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Imprint:   Soho Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   215g
ISBN:   9781641290784
ISBN 10:   1641290781
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Brian Allen Carr lives in Indiana. He is the author of the novel Sip, along with several novellas and story collections. He is the winner of a Wonderland Book Award and a Texas Observer Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, Ninth Letter, Hobart, Boulevard and other publications.

Reviews for Opioid, Indiana

Praise for Sip The precision of the images in this novel illuminate every scene like the water around a lighthouse . . . Eerily prescient for the increasing volatile divide in the United States. --Idra Novey, author of Ways to Disappear Brian Allen Carr beautifully cultivates the classic motif of the loss of the shadow to underline, disguised as a speculation about the future, the nightmarish features of our dystopian present. --Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Whether one reads Sip as a psychedelic Western or an analogy for a society addicted to bleeding the planet dry of its natural resources, Carr serves up a heady brew with plenty of nightmare fuel. --San Diego CityBeat Fans of postapocalyptic fiction will find it difficult to put down Carr's haunting debut, which richly details its world's harsh history while leaving readers enough hope for the future. The title also has excellent YA crossover potential. --Library Journal, Starred Review


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