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Stripped down and stylized - Winter's Bone plus Less Than Zero - the sharpest, boldest, brashest debut of the year.Meet Nikki, the most determined young woman in the Carolina hills. She's determined never to let the targets of society establish her future; determined to make use of all the limited tools at her disposal to shape the earth to her will; determined to maintain her family's domination of the neighborhood drug trade even though her parents are gone. Nikki is thirteen years of age.Opening with a death-defying plunge off a high cliff into a little swimming opening, Young God refuses to slow down for an instant as it graphs Nikki's battles contrary to the forces that be. Katherine Faw Morris has stripped her prose right down to its bare fact - certain chapters are simply a few words long - resulting in an electric, electrifying reading experience that wont soon be overlooked. She quickly gets to the central of Nikki, her young heroine, who's only beginning to learn about her power in the people around her - learning too early, perhaps, but also just quickly enough, if not too late.Evoking the staccato, telegraphic storytelling style of Wayne Ellroy but with the literary have an effect on of a Denis Johnson and a brutal sense of place worth Flannery O'Connor or Donna Tartt, Morris is a debut novelist who needs your attention - and Nikki is a character who will cut you if you let your attention waver.
