Young God

'A stark, seductive coming-of-age tale... 22,000 raw, tense, and poetically incandescent words. Reading it is like having a bottle rocket go off in your hands. Young God is an adrenaline rush of a debut' --Elle

'This is maybe the best first novel I've read since Fight Club. Raw, spare and goddamned poetic, this badass debut will haunt you' --Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana and Donnybrook

'Sweet Jesus is Young God terrifying and great. Katherine Faw Morris's style is singular and ferocious and Nikki is one of the toughest, most electrifying, most unforgettable heroines I have ever encountered on the page. This a furious blaze of a book that will rough you up and reorder your sense of the world and what's possible in it. It's a debut for the ages. Read it' --Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth

'In prose so minimal it could give Hemingway a run for his money... Katherine Faw Morris documents her anti-heroine's rise to underworld prominence in a sparse, staccato style that punches you in the gut' --Huck Magazine

'Young God is the kind of single-sitting read that leaves you hemorrhaging' --Book Slut

'Churning... For the reader, getting sucked into the ensuing story of drugs, vice and murder is a daredevil thrill' --Observer

'Young God is a short, sharp, brutal kick to the guts in fictional form - a stripped-back cliff jump of a story, brutally poetic in its minimalist vision of violence and destruction. It's hard-hitting but the author's deadpan approach means it never feels exploitative. Definitely a young writer to watch' --Big Issue

'Strange and remarkable... Young God is a powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity. It's a quick read but likely to leave even the sturdiest stunned because, as all good storytellers know, trusting the reader to fill in the gaps by themselves always leads to the most disconcerting conclusions of all' --Eimear McBride, Guardian

'Morris's punchy and unwavering style is absolutely of a piece with her unforgiving environment of post-Palahniuk white-trash girl-power' --Literary Review

'Radical and shocking... It is Morris's formal departures that make this novel stand out. Her writing is unusually concise. The abundance of remaining white space frequently reinforces the intensity of Morris's narrative. This is augmented by a spare lyricism that often makes epiphanies of Nikki's degradations. A remarkable debut' --Financial Times

'You are unlikely to read anything quite like this novel this year. Stark but stunning, I've found it has lingered for weeks' -- 'Ones to Watch' , Bookseller

'Brutal and wonderful' --'Book of the Year', Eimear McBride, TLS

'Brutal, uncompromising stuff with its stark, unadorned style and gritty subject matter' --Herald

'You are unlikely to read anything quite like this novel this year. Stark but stunning, I've found it has lingered for weeks' --'Ones to Watch' , Bookseller

Nikki has been thirteen forever. She drives a stolen car up the Carolina hills to her father's trailer with a backpack full of pills. She is determined to make her way into his life. Drug deals, pimp wars, chicken shit, ecstasy. Soon Nikki learns what's required of her to survive - and to prevail - - in this world. Young God introduces a debut novelist with a startling control of language. Scene by harrowing scene, with flashes of brilliant imagery and terse, tense dialogue, this book brings readers into the lost wilds of America. Just as Nikki fights her way into power among dangerous men, Katherine Faw Morris invades stylistic territory usually dominated by male writers - and demands attention.