For You I Would Make an Exception

by Steven Belletto

Overview

"Intelligent and laden with surprises... Marvelous." Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Will Sorley, a native Californian, is barely surviving his days teaching college in rural Pennsylvania when he receives an email from a teenage girl in Kenya claiming to be his long-lost daughter.

This explosive note leads to a trip halfway around the globe to find this young woman and uncover more about her enigmatic mother, while trying to stay connected to his new girlfriend.

Swerving from the comic to the tragic, For You I Would Make an Exception follows Will from Pennsylvania to Kenya, San Francisco to India as his life expands in ways he never imagined.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783988320254
Publisher:	Vine Leaves Press
Publication date:	10/03/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Steven Belletto is author of two books of literary criticism, 'No Accident, Comrade', and 'The Beats: A Literary History'. His short fiction and travel writing have appeared in such venues as 'Cimarron Review', 'Los Angeles Review of Books', 'Quarterly Journal', and 'Wisconsin Review'. He lives in Westport with his dog. Visit: stevenbelletto.com.

Editorial Reviews

"I thoroughly enjoyed this fast-paced, darkly funny, and compulsively readable novel about unexpected fatherhood, international politics, and finding one's place in the world. With a sharp eye for detail and a great ear for dialogue, Belletto shows us how the personal and political are always-thrillingly, dangerously, and emotionally-connected." Alix Ohlin, author of We Want What We Want

"An adventure story that subverts the genre's tropes, Belletto's blazingly intelligent and often wildly funny novel explores the possibility that what we never wanted may turn out to be exactly what we need. This marvelously surprising and deeply moving novel fulfills a demanding task: it shows us how, against all odds, buried courage may be uncovered and a human heart may expand." Lee Upton, author of Visitations

"In For You I Would Make an Exception, Steven Belletto takes the reader on adventures from the US to Kenya to Bihar and back as he examines, hilariously and elegantly, the wild ride of any kind of love. An astute chronicler of the complex and changing geopolitics of our time, acclaimed scholar Belletto's first novel is immersive and riveting; I could not put it down." Jennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers

"Steven Belletto's For You I Would Make an Exception is a Swiss Army knife of a novel: an academic novel that is also a travel novel that is also a novel of manners that is also a coming-of-age novel. Or rather, a coming-of-age novel about a man who is forced to come of age years after he should have come of age. Funny, spot-on, and surprisingly moving, this is a wonderful novel that shows us that it's never too late to leave home and grow up." Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

"Intelligent and laden with surprises. This marvelous and wittily titled novel is full of news of the way we live now." Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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