The Little Brother

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Family Life
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Author: Victoria Patterson ISBN: 9781619026476
Publisher: Counterpoint Press Publication: August 1, 2015
Imprint: Counterpoint Language: English
Author: Victoria Patterson
ISBN: 9781619026476
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication: August 1, 2015
Imprint: Counterpoint
Language: English

“Patterson focuses her unflinching eye on the dark heart of American male privilege . . . an important novel, both terrifying and redemptive.” —Jim Gavin, author of Middle Men

Life is pretty sweet for Even Hyde. Despite his parents’ divorce in 2001, he’s doing just fine, having chosen to live with his richly successful father in Newport Beach, California. When not spending “bonding” time with his partially absent father, he has his run of the house, where he more or less comes and goes as he pleases.

Even’s older brother, Gabe, continues to live in Cucamonga with their emotionally unstable mother. Though he feels discarded and left behind, Gabe visits Even and their father on the weekends, where his quick-to-ignite temper and his evolving addiction to skipping school and smoking weed don’t raise any red flags.

But when Gabe commits a crime so unbelievably heinous that Even can’t forgive his own flesh and blood for it, Even must make the life-changing decision: does he do the right thing and turn his own brother in to the police or does family come first?

“Victoria Patterson is a capable and canny writer, and she would have to be to take on the subject of her newest novel The Little Brother, and produce so arresting and haunting an experience.” —The New York Times Book Review

“It is horrific, unapologetically honest, lacking easy answers, and the best thing I have ever read about what is popularly called Rape Culture . . . Victoria Patterson is a ridiculously under-sung, under-appreciated novelist. . . . a ripping good summer read.” —Three Guys One Book

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“Patterson focuses her unflinching eye on the dark heart of American male privilege . . . an important novel, both terrifying and redemptive.” —Jim Gavin, author of Middle Men

Life is pretty sweet for Even Hyde. Despite his parents’ divorce in 2001, he’s doing just fine, having chosen to live with his richly successful father in Newport Beach, California. When not spending “bonding” time with his partially absent father, he has his run of the house, where he more or less comes and goes as he pleases.

Even’s older brother, Gabe, continues to live in Cucamonga with their emotionally unstable mother. Though he feels discarded and left behind, Gabe visits Even and their father on the weekends, where his quick-to-ignite temper and his evolving addiction to skipping school and smoking weed don’t raise any red flags.

But when Gabe commits a crime so unbelievably heinous that Even can’t forgive his own flesh and blood for it, Even must make the life-changing decision: does he do the right thing and turn his own brother in to the police or does family come first?

“Victoria Patterson is a capable and canny writer, and she would have to be to take on the subject of her newest novel The Little Brother, and produce so arresting and haunting an experience.” —The New York Times Book Review

“It is horrific, unapologetically honest, lacking easy answers, and the best thing I have ever read about what is popularly called Rape Culture . . . Victoria Patterson is a ridiculously under-sung, under-appreciated novelist. . . . a ripping good summer read.” —Three Guys One Book

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