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"Full of gorgeous language and wild insights."—Nick Flynn
Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana’s opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr’s timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place in the world—and come up with $800 rent—is at once a moving rumination on the hopeful power of story and a harrowing insight into modern America. It is a book you won’t soon forget.
Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle’s girlfriend after the death of his parents. Now his uncle is missing, probably on a drug binge. It’s Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who’s been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals—encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening.
With empathy and insight, Carr explores what it’s like to be a high school kid in the age of Trump—a time of economic inequality, addiction, Confederate flags, and mass shootings. Through the voice of its unforgettable protagonist—charismatic, confused, searching, by turns cynical and naïve, wise and impulsive—Opioid, Indiana pierces to the heart of our moment.
Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana’s opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr’s timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place in the world—and come up with $800 rent—is at once a moving rumination on the hopeful power of story and a harrowing insight into modern America. It is a book you won’t soon forget.
Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle’s girlfriend after the death of his parents. Now his uncle is missing, probably on a drug binge. It’s Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who’s been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals—encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening.
With empathy and insight, Carr explores what it’s like to be a high school kid in the age of Trump—a time of economic inequality, addiction, Confederate flags, and mass shootings. Through the voice of its unforgettable protagonist—charismatic, confused, searching, by turns cynical and naïve, wise and impulsive—Opioid, Indiana pierces to the heart of our moment.
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An Amazon Best Book of September 2019: Recently transplanted from Texas to Indiana, where he has moved in with his drug-addled uncle and his uncle’s girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Riggle lives in what is commonly referred to as “flyover country.” The picture of the teenager’s life that author Brian Allen Carr paints is not pretty, but there is something really attractive about this novel. Riggle is a character you want read about and root for, and the characters around him are all memorable in their various dysfunctions. When Riggle is suspended from school for a week, we get to spend the days with him as he navigates the poor hand he’s been dealt. Each day begins with memories of his deceased mother. He goes to the movies with his best friend Bennet. He goes looking for a job (and his uncle, who is off doing drugs), and we gradually learn more about where he came from, even as he has no idea where he’s going. This isn’t everyone’s story, and it is not a story for every reader. But it is a genuine one, and Riggle's thoughts and musings about his messed-up world kept me turning the pages. He will stick with me for a long time. --Chris Schluep
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Brian Allen Carr lives in Indiana. He is the author of the novel Sip, along with several novellas and story collections. He is the winner of a Wonderland Book Award and Texas Observer Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, Ninth Letter, Hobart, Boulevard and other publications.
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