Love Me Back (Merritt Tierce)

Sinopse

Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It’s a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive. 

Publicado por: Doubleday

Publicado em: 2014

Pygmy (Chuck Palahniuk)

Sinopse

The plot revolves around a 13-year-old exchange student, one of a dozen "shipped to America", to live with American families. Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba, Communist-era China, and Nazi-era Germany), as an "exchange student" into the welcoming arms of his Midwestern host family, who give him an over sized "Jesus" t-shirt and a tiny American flag. They introduce Pygmy into the rituals of modern American life, a stark contrast to the operative's upbringing. On a trip to Wal-Mart with his host family, he attempts to purchase various assault rifles from an elderly Wal-Mart greeter. He then sexually assaults the bully of his host brother in the bathroom, in graphic detail. This is only the first of many horrifying acts committed by the operative. Along with his fellow terrorists, he is planning something big.

Publicado por: Doubleday

Publicado em: 2009