The book captures various periods of his mother's life and touches on many themes including isolation, friendship, love, life purpose, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, feminine oppression, and the digital age. When his editor (still after him for the writing for which he was given an advance) persuades Samuel to track down his mother, Samuel must confront and discover the various serpentine, complex, and at times, humorous figures and sub-plots from his youth to arrive. Nathan Hills novel The Nix is a big, sprawling multi-generational saga about family ghosts-some that need exorcising, others that merely require understanding. The Nix is a story that details the inner workings of being human, vulnerable and working to understand and reconcile your past. About the author (2017) Nathan Hill was born in Iowa in 1975 and lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.

One day, Samuel discovers that the mother who abandoned him has become a radical leftist activist who is under arrest for assaulting a public figure. Samuel seeks comfort in junk food, an acerbic inner-monologue, and a Second-Life-style internet game called Elfscape and generally struggles to find motivation or self-respect.

He was abandoned by his mother at a young age. As Samuel begins to excavate his mothers - and his countrys - history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during the Great Recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and back to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. The Nix is an American epic novel in 10 parts that follows community college professor of English, Samuel Andresen-Anderson who is struggling to find meaning in his life in the years following his failure to write a book which he was already paid an advance for. The Nix (Knopf, 620 pp., out of four stars) jumps viewpoints and time periods with delightful abandon: there’s sixth-grader Samuel in 1988, prone to crying jags, as if sensing that his. This section needs expansion with: Plot summary is currently incomplete.

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