Nickel
by Robert Wilder
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: September 13th 2016
Leaf Storm Press
A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND LOYALTY. Being a teenager is hard enough without your mother in rehab and your slightly inept stepfather doing his best not to screw things up. But at least, Coy has Monroe. Coy is a quirky teenage boy and his best friend Monroe is a girl who is just as odd and funny and obsessed with 80’s culture as he is. So when Monroe comes down with a mysterious illness, his inner turmoil only grows. As Monroe gets sicker and Coy gets a girlfriend from another social crowd, the balance tips and Coy has to figure out how not to give up on his friend, his family, or himself. Nickel is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest portrayal of the complicated world of being a teenager today.
“No one has ever written about the pains of being a teenager–physically and psychologically, inside and out–quite like Robert Wilder in his startling debut novel. He has created indelible characters in Monroe and Coy–funny and sad and strong and broken–and NICKEL is about as real as it gets.
–AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, New York Times best-selling author of Running With Scissors
"A humorous, poignant, and formidable debut."
-BOOKLIST (starred review)
"A witty, angst-filled drama."
"A witty, angst-filled drama."
-KIRKUS
“I loved this novel for its humor and pathos, for its honesty and
accuracy about what it means to live in our world. Nickel features a heartbreaking set of
circumstances, yet its narrator never loses his essential charm as a young man
ready to find hilarity even in the direst of dark times. The first thing I
wanted to do was recommend the book to everybody.”
–ANTONYA NELSON, award-winning author of Funny Once, Talking in Bed, and
Bound
accuracy about what it means to live in our world. Nickel features a heartbreaking set of
circumstances, yet its narrator never loses his essential charm as a young man
ready to find hilarity even in the direst of dark times. The first thing I
wanted to do was recommend the book to everybody.”
–ANTONYA NELSON, award-winning author of Funny Once, Talking in Bed, and
Bound
“Robert Wilder’s Nickel is a
feisty, fantastically gripping story. The novel is a funny, frank,
heartbreaking portrait of adolescence, which the author knows all too well as
the most emotionally intense period of anyone’s life. This is doubly true for
Wilder’s Coy, a smartass but deeply bruised nonconformist grappling with
illness and threat all around him. I haven’t read a teenage narrator this
well-drawn, this vexingly captivating since Salinger!”
–CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS, award-winning author of Gold Fame Citrus, and Battleborn
feisty, fantastically gripping story. The novel is a funny, frank,
heartbreaking portrait of adolescence, which the author knows all too well as
the most emotionally intense period of anyone’s life. This is doubly true for
Wilder’s Coy, a smartass but deeply bruised nonconformist grappling with
illness and threat all around him. I haven’t read a teenage narrator this
well-drawn, this vexingly captivating since Salinger!”
–CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS, award-winning author of Gold Fame Citrus, and Battleborn
Author Spotlight:
Robert Wilder is the author of two critically acclaimed essay collections, Tales From The Teachers’ Lounge and Daddy Needs A Drink, both published by Delacorte Press. His YA novel, Nickel, will be published September 2016 by Leaf Storm Press.
A teacher for more than twenty-five years, he has earned numerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation. He has published essays in Newsweek, Details, Salon, Parenting, Creative Nonfiction, plus numerous anthologies and has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition. Wilder lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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