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East Brother

Stefan Mattessich

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​​​Fiction​​​​​

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“[A]n unflinchingly realistic and achingly sad depiction of a profound lonesomeness – one that can’t be remedied by company but. . .isn’t completely hopeless, either.”                                                                         — Kirkus Reviews​

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When Jess Cooper goes AWOL from the Navy, he takes refuge with his uncle Milo, who knows a lot about running away. He’s been doing it his whole life in East Brother, a beach town on the fabled California coast. Both feel caught between escape and belonging, fantasy and commitment. Both end up coming face to face with the lies they tell themselves and a truth that is finally much stranger than fiction. This novel, originally published by Urizen Books in 2020, has been reissued by Atopon.​​​

 

Paperback: $16.00