{"product_id":"the-nix-by-nathan-hill","title":"The Nix by Nathan Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003e''The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.'' – John Irving\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e''The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.'' – \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNathan Hill''s brilliant debut,\u003cem\u003e The Nix\u003c\/em\u003e, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn''t seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she''s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel''s help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Samuel begins to excavate his mother''s, and his country''s, history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e''Outstanding'' – John Boyne, \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prismatic Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51178221601079,"sku":"10312","price":159.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/3097\/1447\/files\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-03-at-164718_2936d3f33a6c033667b668bcfa16a567.jpg?v=1759843656","url":"https:\/\/shop.prismaticpages.com\/products\/the-nix-by-nathan-hill","provider":"Prismatic Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}