Author: Justin Torres
Narrator: Justin Torres
Unabridged: TBD
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/20/2026
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Hispanic & Latino
JUSTIN TORRES is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, and the Southern California Book Award. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he’s also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His first novel, We the Animals was a national bestseller and adapted into a feature film. He lives Los Angeles, and is an associate professor of English at UCLA.
Harsh, raw, powerful, uplifting, depressing, disappointing, brilliant. This tale of three brothers and their parents is told in the form of 19 chapters or short stories and it will generate a response. Justin Torres - image from WPSU at Penn State There are times when the writing seems forced, clum......more
I usually find something to commend on most every book I read, some aspect that strikes the right note. Sadly, this is one of two books I’ve read (to completion) in the past five years(that was hailed and cooed by the titans of publishing)that I thought was good on social justice but poor on story/w......more
Ok. I get it. I get why three people TOTAL have recommended this one to me. It is the shortest type of experience, the most meaningful for its inherent scarcity-- a novella. It can be read during one dull hour, perhaps two. This way, the author is assured at least ONE TRUE reading of his work, which......more
This is a gorgeous book with fierce ideas. The family is exceptionally rendered and race and sexuality are approached in new ways here. Torres does a fine job of capturing the rambunctious energy of young boys being raised rough by parents who don't quite get it right with their children or each oth......more
This is a very raw and powerful novella, about three mixed race brothers in an impoverished household in Upstate New York. The narrator is the youngest brother and is unnamed throughout the story They are wild, hungry boys who are often left untended .. the dad can’t hold a job and goes out messing a......more