The Broken King
From the author of Man Gone Down âa New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and winner of the Dublin Literary Award â comes a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men âMichael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. The Broken King is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. Itâs genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical books I have ever read. Iâm full of awe.â Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk âEntirely mesmerizing⊠With a virtuosic command of language and an eagle eye for punishing detail, Thomas has rendered beautifully an excruciating existence from which it is impossible to turn awayâ New York Times From the author of Man Gone Down â winner of the 2007 Dublin International Literary Award â  a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men In his second book and first work of nonfiction, The Broken King, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, success and failure in a unique, urgent, and timeless memoir. Bringing to mind both James Baldwinâs The Fire Next Time and Vladimir Nabokovâs Speak, Memory, Thomasâ memoir unfolds through six powerful, interlocking and overlaying parts focusing on the lives of five men: his fatherâa philosopher, Boston Red Sox fan, and absent parent; his estranged older brother; his two sons growing up in Brooklyn; and always, heartbreakingly himself. At the center of The Broken King is the story of Thomasâ own breakdown, a result of inherited family history and his own experiences, from growing up Black in the Boston suburbs to publishing a prize-winning novel with âthe house of Beckett.â Every page of The Broken King rings with the impact of Americaâs sweeping struggle with race and class, education and family, and builds to a brave, meticulous articulation of a creative mindâs journey into and out of madness.
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From the author of Man Gone Down âa New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and winner of the Dublin Literary Award â comes a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men âMichael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. The Broken King is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. Itâs genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical books I have ever read. Iâm full of awe.â Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk âEntirely mesmerizing⊠With a virtuosic command of language and an eagle eye for punishing detail, Thomas has rendered beautifully an excruciating existence from which it is impossible to turn awayâ New York Times From the author of Man Gone Down â winner of the 2007 Dublin International Literary Award â  a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men In his second book and first work of nonfiction, The Broken King, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, success and failure in a unique, urgent, and timeless memoir. Bringing to mind both James Baldwinâs The Fire Next Time and Vladimir Nabokovâs Speak, Memory, Thomasâ memoir unfolds through six powerful, interlocking and overlaying parts focusing on the lives of five men: his fatherâa philosopher, Boston Red Sox fan, and absent parent; his estranged older brother; his two sons growing up in Brooklyn; and always, heartbreakingly himself. At the center of The Broken King is the story of Thomasâ own breakdown, a result of inherited family history and his own experiences, from growing up Black in the Boston suburbs to publishing a prize-winning novel with âthe house of Beckett.â Every page of The Broken King rings with the impact of Americaâs sweeping struggle with race and class, education and family, and builds to a brave, meticulous articulation of a creative mindâs journey into and out of madness.
