The HundredYear Flood, Matthew Salesses
The HundredYear Flood, Matthew Salesses
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The Hundred-Year Flood

Author: Matthew Salesses

Narrator: Mark Schenfisch

Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. This beautiful and dreamlike story follows Tee, a twenty-two-year-old Korean-American, as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. His life intertwines with Pavel, a painter famous for revolution; Katka, his equally alluring wife; and Pavel's partner—a giant of a man with an American name. As the flood slowly makes its way into the old city, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts. In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang, the Good Men Project’s Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood.

About Matthew Salesses

Matthew Salesses was adopted from Korea at age two. He has written about adoption and race for NPR Code Switch, the New York Times Motherlode blog, and Salon, and his fiction has appeared in Guernica/PEN, Glimmer Train, and American Short Fiction, among others. He is the fiction editor and a contributing writer at the Good Men Project. He is also the author of I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying. The Hundred-Year Flood is his first full-length novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jody on August 04, 2015

For a more in-depth review, see my blog, [URL not allowed] What struck me most about this book was that while the prose is very elegant and at times almost lyrical, Tee never goes anywhere. He circles around his issues and his neighborhood, very often spelling out for the reade......more

Goodreads review by Marlene on August 03, 2015

I'm afraid I don't really have the chops to critique literary fiction. What I know is that at some point after the first third of the book, I couldn't put it down. I've just now finished it and I want to stay inside this book. I want to swim with the floodwaters. I want to go back to the evenings wh......more

Goodreads review by Joyce A. Wendeln on December 28, 2017

The Silmarillian was easier to follow, I have read many books that were hard to get a hold of in the beginning. But I don't think that even with Map Quest and a private guide this one would ever made sense. I find it easier to believe in zombies. This is the mad ramblings of a disconnected mind. Sorr......more

Goodreads review by D. on August 26, 2015

After the first few pages, my initial reaction was, "Oh, no, not another MFA-approved senior project!" It had all the elements: obscure racial designations, otherness, exotic locations, angst and art and, oh no. Except for one thing...this is good. It's good. That's because the identity issues aren't......more

Goodreads review by Lori on June 18, 2015

review to come......more

Quotes

“Salesses’s novel dramatically documents how longing can turn, painfully, into love.” —The Millions, Most Anticipated 2015 Book Preview “What carries us through the novel is Salesses’s gift for language: here is a meditative, poetic, modern fable crafted in haunting bursts of impressionistic prose.” —Kirkus Reviews “Through dreamlike language, Salesses toys with our human need to control forces that are larger than us: the flood, secrets, the past, disease, the inevitability of the reality one creates for one’s self. The novel holds a meditative, reflective pace.” —Kirkus Reviews, feature interview

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