Doxology

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Two generations of an American family come of age one before 9/11, one after in this moving and original novel from the intellectually restless, uniquely funny (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals a daughter for Pam and Daniel, a solo hit single for Joe. As the 90s wane, the three friends share in one anothers successes, working together to elevate Joes superstardom and raise baby Flora.

On September 11, 2001, the citys unfathomable devastation coincides with a shattering personal loss for the trio. In the aftermath, Flora comes of age, navigating a charged political landscape and discovering a love of the natural world. Joining the ranks of those fighting for ecological conservation, Flora works to bridge the wide gap between powerful strategists and ordinary Americans, becoming entangled ever more intimately with her fellow activists along the way. And when the country faces an astonishing new threat, Floras family will have no choice but to look to the past both to examine wounds that have never healed, and to rediscover strengths they have long forgotten.

At once an elegiac takedown of todays political climate and a touching invocation of humanitys goodness, Doxology offers daring revelations about Americas past and possible future that could only come from Nell Zink, one of the sharpest novelists of our time.

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Doxology, her fifth and best book yet, is more than worth shouting about a big American novel of the very best kind, mainlining the anxieties of our age, but with just the right dose of love and mercy to take the edge off Financial Times

This is a typical Zink novel, in that its totally unpredictable the random nature of life is one of Doxologys themes Zink injects all of this with her usual deadpan hilarity, while her cast of inimitable misfits are never in danger of being overshadowed by her larger concerns Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Even the things we know are going to happen retain the weight of the unexpected, and that is down to Zinks facility for recreating not just detail but also the texture of the past Sarah Ditum, The Spectator

An ambitious and original novel Image Magazine

Its superb. In terms of its authors ability to throw dart after dart after dart into the center of your media-warped mind and soul, its the novel of the summer and possibly the year. Its bliss. Doxology puts her on a new level as a novelist. This book is more ambitious and expansive and sensitive than her earlier work. She lays her heart on the line in a way she hasnt before New York Times

This is a one-of-a-kind writer this must-read confronts todays political climate front on Elle

Invigorating Guardian

Zinks idiosyncratic, intrusive presence and her taste for sudden reversals in tone and plot have won her praise as a flouter of conventionZinks style is certainly vivid and outlandish, morally adventurous and uncontained John Maier, Literary Review

Author Bio

Nell Zink was born in 1964 in southern California and grew up in rural Virginia. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary, where she majored in philosophy. Rather late in life she got a doctorate in Media Studies from the University of Tbingen, Germany. She works as a translator for Zeitenspiegel Reportagen and lives in Bad Belzig, south of Berlin.