2024年6月4日 · Brat is the story of the unraveling sanity of our twenty-something-year old protagonist Gabriel, as his formerly perfect life crumbles apart. Once a young writer deemed to be brimming with potential, he hasn’t been able to commit a single sentence to paper towards his latest (far overdue) manuscript.

2024年6月4日 · Gabriel Smith’s arrival heralds the next generation of fiction writers—formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation. Irreverent and boundary-pushing, but not for its own sake, the novel that follows is muscular yet lyrical, riddled with paradox, and told with a ...

2024年6月3日 · In his mother’s study, Gabriel finds a novel where a woman with her same name dies in a car accident; in his father’s, there’s a script about friends who gather weekly...

2024年5月14日 · This is an excerpt from Brat by Gabriel Smith, published in the UK by Simon and Schuster.

“Gabriel Smith’s jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace’s sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation. Brat will unnerve and seduce you.” —Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted

2024年7月23日 · Gabriel Smith’s Brat— the Brat I’ve been entrusted to review here—follows a writer named Gabriel Smith as he works on his second novel in the wake of his father’s death. His skin is peeling off in large sheets. Is it eczema, as everyone around him seems to be asking?

2024年6月21日 · Smith takes readers on a journey through the mysteries of Gabriel’s family through sections of a more traditional narrative structure with fragments of other stories.

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past. We meet our ill-tempered protagonist—the story’s titular “brat”—at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom.

2024年6月11日 · In his debut, of the now infamous title, Brat, Smith’s narrator, a 20-something writer also named Gabriel, ruminates on grief, loss, and memory in ways that push the novel’s form into new territories, borrowing from U.K post-rave music’s “sample-driven” approach. His “staccato” prose, as he described it to fellow debut novelist ...