Fancy Gap
A Novel
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Fancy Gap
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Zak Jones
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In the hills and isolated mountain enclaves of southern Appalachia, Nana Grace has left her own family behind to become the “Shepherd” of a disaffected flock of worshippers that she keeps in thrall through her charismatic preaching and the dispensing of stolen drugs.
Her daughter, Jane, struggles with breast cancer, the painful effects of its treatment, and the expectation to perform unceasing gratitude toward the evangelical community that reluctantly supports her out of a transactional sense of duty.
Jane's eldest son, Dalton, has been discharged from the army under conditions "Other than Honorable." Accused of breaching the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Dalton drifts hesitantly home, pulled by guilt and love for his younger brother. Messy (christened Messiah at Grace’s insistence) is awkward in a world that attacks difference. Guided by faith, tortured by abandonment, Messy eventually develops a warped moral code shaped by alienation and anger.
Fancy Gap is an unflinching look at the desperation that throws kerosene on the flames of opioid use, poverty, illness, and apocalyptic Christianity. Profound and captivating, violent and lyrical, it introduces Zak Jones as a compelling and original new voice in Canadian literature.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"With Fancy Gap, Zak Jones has given us an extraordinary novel of strange beauties and horrors. His characters live at the edges of the American experiment—the freaks, the addicts, the criminals and those just simply ravaged by illness—and as the novel builds, taking us through a world of drugs, religion, fringe politics and frayed family bonds, it gathers hallucinatory power."
—Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Uncertain Ground and Redeployment
"In god's name, Amen. Zak Jones has created his own backwoods revival with Fancy Gap. Here is a novel that clicks along like an empty cartridge on a stolen military pistol, a story that alternates between the calm energy of an oxy-induced stupor and the frantic fire of methamphetamine. Jones brings us right onto the bench seat of a truck hell-bent for glory on the Blue Ridge Parkway. But no one can hear the angels sing when survival is all you can pray for and the definition of family gets blurred by opioids and then drowned in a carcinogenic river along with the American dream."
—Conor Kerr, award-winning author of Prairie Edge and Avenue of Champions
"Fancy Gap blends rich style with profound sincerity as Zak Jones, in a story as attuned to pain as it is to beauty, delineates the loves and obsessions of his characters. The breadth of influence visible here—from Mary Gaitskill to Randall Kenan to Daniel Woodrell—makes the territory of Fancy Gap Jones’s own."
—Naben Ruthnum, author of Helpmeet and A Hero of Our Time
"Fancy Gap, like its author, is a true original—a work of personal integrity, profound insight and deep feeling. Rarely does a first novel so incisively and curiously, in such exquisite and evocative language, delve into questions about faith and family with such a boundless capacity for empathy and care. This is a special book by a writer we should all be reading for some time."
—Pasha Malla, author of All You Can Kill and Kill the Mall
"Fancy Gap is a beautifully written, profound look at two brothers forced into impossible, inevitable decisions by traumas beyond their understanding—grief, addiction, and the unyielding demands of capitalism. A requiem for lives that can’t be lived. An empathetic portrait of family in end-stage America. . . . A remarkable debut."
—Michael Melgaard, author of Not That Kind of Place and Pallbearing
—Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Uncertain Ground and Redeployment
"In god's name, Amen. Zak Jones has created his own backwoods revival with Fancy Gap. Here is a novel that clicks along like an empty cartridge on a stolen military pistol, a story that alternates between the calm energy of an oxy-induced stupor and the frantic fire of methamphetamine. Jones brings us right onto the bench seat of a truck hell-bent for glory on the Blue Ridge Parkway. But no one can hear the angels sing when survival is all you can pray for and the definition of family gets blurred by opioids and then drowned in a carcinogenic river along with the American dream."
—Conor Kerr, award-winning author of Prairie Edge and Avenue of Champions
"Fancy Gap blends rich style with profound sincerity as Zak Jones, in a story as attuned to pain as it is to beauty, delineates the loves and obsessions of his characters. The breadth of influence visible here—from Mary Gaitskill to Randall Kenan to Daniel Woodrell—makes the territory of Fancy Gap Jones’s own."
—Naben Ruthnum, author of Helpmeet and A Hero of Our Time
"Fancy Gap, like its author, is a true original—a work of personal integrity, profound insight and deep feeling. Rarely does a first novel so incisively and curiously, in such exquisite and evocative language, delve into questions about faith and family with such a boundless capacity for empathy and care. This is a special book by a writer we should all be reading for some time."
—Pasha Malla, author of All You Can Kill and Kill the Mall
"Fancy Gap is a beautifully written, profound look at two brothers forced into impossible, inevitable decisions by traumas beyond their understanding—grief, addiction, and the unyielding demands of capitalism. A requiem for lives that can’t be lived. An empathetic portrait of family in end-stage America. . . . A remarkable debut."
—Michael Melgaard, author of Not That Kind of Place and Pallbearing
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