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by Robert Wilder Genre: YA Contemporary Release Date: September 13th 2016 Leaf Storm Press Summary: A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND LOYALTY. Being a teenager is hard enough without your mother in rehab and your slightly inept stepfather doing his best not to screw things up. But at least, Coy has Monroe. Coy is a quirky teenage boy and his best friend Monroe is a girl who is just as odd and funny and obsessed with 80âs culture as he is. So when Monroe comes down with a mysterious illness, his inner turmoil only grows. As Monroe gets sicker and Coy gets a girlfriend from another social crowd, the balance tips and Coy has to figure out how not to give up on his friend, his family, or himself. Nickel is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest portrayal of the complicated world of being a teenager today. âNo one has ever written about the pains of being a teenagerâphysically and psychologically, inside and outâquite like Robert Wilder in his startling debut novel. He has created indelible characters in Monroe and Coyâfunny and sad and strong and brokenâand NICKEL is about as real as it gets. âAUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, New York Times best-selling author of Running With Scissors
"A humorous, poignant, and formidable debut."
-BOOKLIST (starred review)
"A witty, angst-filled drama."
-KIRKUS
âI loved this novel for its humor and pathos, for its honesty and accuracy about what it means to live in our world. Nickel features a heartbreaking set of circumstances, yet its narrator never loses his essential charm as a young man ready to find hilarity even in the direst of dark times. The first thing I wanted to do was recommend the book to everybody.â
âANTONYA NELSON, award-winning author of Funny Once, Talking in Bed, and Bound
âI have never read anything that captures the teenage mind quite like Robert Wilderâs funny and brilliantly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies of Nickel; one to read over and over again and one to give away.â
âNATALIE GOLDBERG, author of Writing Down the Bones, and The Great Spring
âFunny, suspenseful, and alive with the most vivid adolescent characters youâll ever read, Nickel is a wonderful novel and Rob Wilder is a masterful writer.â
âROBERT BOSWELL, award-winning author of Tumbledown, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, Crooked Hearts, and Mystery Ride
âCompassionate, frightening and funny, this is a terrific book. With seeming ease Wilder gets precisely the ironic detachment and surface sophistication of todayâs youth culture while delving straight into the heart of adolescence, its fragile emotions, its awkwardness, uncertainty and ancient fears. Despite my initial hesitations about diving back into the isolating terrors of high school and of serious illness, I was immediately won over by this authorâs keen insight, his rare ability with language, his leavening humor andâusing all of these in tandemâhis power to convince.â
âDAVID SMALL, author/illustrator and Caldecott Award winner for So You Want To Be President?, and The Gardener, plus two-time National Book Award Finalist for Stitches, and The Underneath
âRobert Wilderâs Nickel is a feisty, fantastically gripping story. The novel is a funny, frank, heartbreaking portrait of adolescence, which the author knows all too well as the most emotionally intense period of anyoneâs life. This is doubly true for Wilderâs Coy, a smartass but deeply bruised nonconformist grappling with illness and threat all around him. I havenât read a teenage narrator this well-drawn, this vexingly captivating since Salinger!â
âCLAIRE VAYE WATKINS, award-winning author of Gold Fame Citrus, and Battleborn
âThis funny, sad, and tender novel sweeps us effortlessly into the land of sectarian cliques and conspiraciesâhigh school. We learn, as if for the first time, that some of us get acquainted with incalculably dark knowledge too soon. Like Lorrie Mooreâs Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, Rob Wilderâs novel reminds us that adolescent best friendships are the purest form of love. And the site of purest heartbreak too.â
âDEBRA MONROE, award-winning author of My Unsentimental Education, On the Outskirts of Normal, and The Source of Trouble
About the Author
Robert Wilder is the author of two critically acclaimed essay collections, Tales From The Teachersâ Lounge and Daddy Needs A Drink, both published by Delacorte Press. His YA novel, Nickel, will be published September 2016 by Leaf Storm Press.
A teacher for more than twenty-five years, he has earned numerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation. He has published essays in Newsweek, Details, Salon, Parenting, Creative Nonfiction, plus numerous anthologies and has been a commentator for NPRâs Morning Edition. Wilder lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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