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"Zink's gifts for characterization and richly evoked periods and places are on display throughout.... Ambitious."--Publishers Weekly

"Sharp, empathetic, and at once critical and hopeful, following an oddball trio from their beginnings as a terrible punk band in 1990s Lower East Side through their coming of age into a post-9/11 New York and world."--Buzzfeed

"A distinct, unflinching look at the country's past and future."--Time

"The first truly great novel to tackle the 2016 election.... She's sharper, slyer, than ever before.... No one can write a one-liner like Zink.... [Zink] captures those doomed final days before November 8, 2016, more accurately than any breathlessly reported account from any political reporter or former campaign worker."--Paris Review

"The prolific and cult-beloved Zink could find a broader audience with this engaging family chronicle, which depicts two generations of an American clan, pre- and post-9/11."--Entertainment Weekly

"A master of compassionate satire bestows another off-kilter epic."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"Sweeping.... Powerful.... Zink could [always] merrily explode a weird subculture and expose its ugliness and beauty... But in this book, she balances this specificity (Coding! Punk rock! D.C. neighborhoods!) in the service of what feels like a larger goal."--Los Angeles Times

"A tender story about what it means to be a good person and a good parent in trying times.... Zink is a sharp observer of current events.... Doxology circles around a coterie of gentle, likable characters.... More than a few readers will see in their story reflections of their own lives."--Shelf Awareness

"It's the novel of the summer and possibly the year. It's a ragged chunk of ecstatic cerebral-satirical intellection. It's bliss.... "Doxology" puts [Zink] on a new level.... She lays her heart on the line in a way she hasn't before.... Zink writes as if the political madness of the last four decades had been laid on for her benefit as a novelist."--New York Times

"[The] subtle intersection of the ordinary and the absurd is [Zink's] trademark maneuver. Wit ricochets around her straight-faced sentences like marbles in a can.... The most endearing aspect of "Doxology" is the resilient joy racing through Zink's characters.... Her portrait of the parasitic relationship between fans and their idols is hilarious.... Zink is an astute critic of our recent election and its alarming abuses."--Washington Post

Reseña del editor

A Recommended Book of 2019 from Vulture and Esquire

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 another’s successes, working together to elevate Joe’s superstardom and raise baby Flora.

On September 11, 2001, the city’s 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, Flora’s 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 today’s political climate and a touching invocation of humanity’s goodness, Doxology offers daring revelations about America’s past and possible future that could only come from Nell Zink, one of the sharpest novelists of our time.