Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Harper Collins
Paperback
*INDIGO’S PICK!*
Behold: a book that can only be described as a love letter to Pittsburgh. And yet, that doesn’t even begin to encapsulate its beauty and magic. I think everyone has a book they re-read every year and this is mine. It grows with me as I grow and has remained my favorite book for a number of years now. It was the first book I read in my first college writing course, and I had no idea then how it would change me forever. This book made me fall in love with the Pittsburgh I had taken for granted, as a native. It took the dingy gray city I’d grown used to and transformed it into The Cloud Factory, The Lost Neighborhood. It turns late night drives into glittering, golden memories. This book touched me so deeply it became my first tattoo. It taught me how to love, how to forgive, and how to find cinematic chaos and joy in the mundane. I remember finishing it and throwing it across the room, in choking sobs. I couldn’t believe it was over and I had to say goodbye to these characters who had become me, become my friends and lovers. This was the book that helped me settle into my own queerness. It was the book that guided me through the uncertainty and naivety of my early twenties. It is a book of all seasons but will always cradle you in the orange glow of summer. Sit on Flagstaff Hill and look out towards The Cloud Factory as you read, let the fantasy overwhelm you and turn this town into Chabon’s glistening, nostalgic dream of a world.
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity. Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield and The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh incontrovertibly established Chabon as a powerful force in contemporary fiction, even before his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay set the literary world spinning. An unforgettable story of coming of age in America, it is also an essential milestone in the movement of American fiction, from a novelist who has become one of the most important and enduring voices of this generation.
Harper Collins
Paperback
*INDIGO’S PICK!*
Behold: a book that can only be described as a love letter to Pittsburgh. And yet, that doesn’t even begin to encapsulate its beauty and magic. I think everyone has a book they re-read every year and this is mine. It grows with me as I grow and has remained my favorite book for a number of years now. It was the first book I read in my first college writing course, and I had no idea then how it would change me forever. This book made me fall in love with the Pittsburgh I had taken for granted, as a native. It took the dingy gray city I’d grown used to and transformed it into The Cloud Factory, The Lost Neighborhood. It turns late night drives into glittering, golden memories. This book touched me so deeply it became my first tattoo. It taught me how to love, how to forgive, and how to find cinematic chaos and joy in the mundane. I remember finishing it and throwing it across the room, in choking sobs. I couldn’t believe it was over and I had to say goodbye to these characters who had become me, become my friends and lovers. This was the book that helped me settle into my own queerness. It was the book that guided me through the uncertainty and naivety of my early twenties. It is a book of all seasons but will always cradle you in the orange glow of summer. Sit on Flagstaff Hill and look out towards The Cloud Factory as you read, let the fantasy overwhelm you and turn this town into Chabon’s glistening, nostalgic dream of a world.
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity. Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield and The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh incontrovertibly established Chabon as a powerful force in contemporary fiction, even before his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay set the literary world spinning. An unforgettable story of coming of age in America, it is also an essential milestone in the movement of American fiction, from a novelist who has become one of the most important and enduring voices of this generation.
Harper Collins
Paperback
*INDIGO’S PICK!*
Behold: a book that can only be described as a love letter to Pittsburgh. And yet, that doesn’t even begin to encapsulate its beauty and magic. I think everyone has a book they re-read every year and this is mine. It grows with me as I grow and has remained my favorite book for a number of years now. It was the first book I read in my first college writing course, and I had no idea then how it would change me forever. This book made me fall in love with the Pittsburgh I had taken for granted, as a native. It took the dingy gray city I’d grown used to and transformed it into The Cloud Factory, The Lost Neighborhood. It turns late night drives into glittering, golden memories. This book touched me so deeply it became my first tattoo. It taught me how to love, how to forgive, and how to find cinematic chaos and joy in the mundane. I remember finishing it and throwing it across the room, in choking sobs. I couldn’t believe it was over and I had to say goodbye to these characters who had become me, become my friends and lovers. This was the book that helped me settle into my own queerness. It was the book that guided me through the uncertainty and naivety of my early twenties. It is a book of all seasons but will always cradle you in the orange glow of summer. Sit on Flagstaff Hill and look out towards The Cloud Factory as you read, let the fantasy overwhelm you and turn this town into Chabon’s glistening, nostalgic dream of a world.
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity. Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield and The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh incontrovertibly established Chabon as a powerful force in contemporary fiction, even before his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay set the literary world spinning. An unforgettable story of coming of age in America, it is also an essential milestone in the movement of American fiction, from a novelist who has become one of the most important and enduring voices of this generation.