Niagara Motel
La description
In this disarming cross-country odyssey set in the 1990s, an 11-year-old boy searches for his father.
Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little’s follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable 11 year-old Tucker Malone―the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper―who believes his father is Sam Malone from Cheers. When his mother is left comatose in a car accident, a series of events leads Tucker to embark on a journey across America to find his father. Told in spare, straightforward prose, Niagara Motel is a biting chronicle during the rise of mass media in the decade that defined the MTV Generation, and the bittersweet story of a young boy forced to learn brutal lessons on his way to becoming a man.
Récompenses
- Short-listed, Ethel Wilson Ficton Prize 2017
Reviews
A dark, fearless portrait of an adolescence lived in less than ideal circumstances. Told with a balanced touch of humour and tragedy, Niagara Motel is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. -Michael Christie, author of If I Fall, If I Die
- Michael Christie
Part Huck Finn, part Natural Born Killers, Niagara Motel re-animates fin de siecle North America in all its surreal, gaudy wonder. Through the force of Tucker's voice -- preternaturally trusting, quasi-beatific -- we enter a liminal world of celebrity criminals, tourist attractions, and social anomie at once familiar and strange, at once the recent past and an allegory for the adolescent years of this century. Ashley Little can make you believe everything. -Matt Rader, author of Desecrations
- Matt Rader
Sharp, sly, and full of feeling. Catcher in the Rye crashes into the 1990s. A voice and a story you won't be able to shake. -Alix Hawley, author of All True Not a Lie in It
- Alix Hawley
Tucker's a charmer from the get-go -- funny and wise and knowing and clueless -- the best companion you could have on this road trip across the early 90s, where the real and the outlandish blur and commingle. Like summer blacktop, like a desert mirage, Niagara Motel shimmers. -Anne Fleming, author of Gay Dwarves of America
- Anne Fleming
Tucker's the heart of this improbable series of events. An innocent in a tough and corrupt world, his generous narration -- the voice, the sense-making, the insight -- is the great drawing card of Little's novel. He's plucky and determined and, despite circumstances, refreshingly unmarred.
- Vancouver Sun
-Vancouver Sun