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In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang, Matthew Salesses weaves along the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and romantic relationships in his stunning first book, The Hundred-Year Overflow. This beautiful and dreamlike debut employs 22-year-old Tee as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle's suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. Tee tries to persuade himself that living in a fresh place means a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his implemented daddy. His life intertwines with Pavel Picasso, a painter well-known for trend; Katka, his similarly alluring better half; and Picasso's spouse - a huge of a man with an American name. Inside the shadow of your looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both merged and adopted so when an American in a odd land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts.