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Blackouts (National Book Award Winner)

By Justin Torres
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By Justin Torres
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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

From Justin Torres, author of We the Animals, comes National Book Award-winner Blackouts, a gorgeous novel exploring love, loss and the stories we leave behind. With inventive and transformative form and prose that only deepens the resonance of the written word, this expands the boundaries of what a novel can be in the best of ways.

Winner of the National Book Award

Winner of the California Book Award

Winner of Tournament of Books

Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book—Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns—and its devastating histor...

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