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FUCCBOI
A jaw-droppingly original examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying new voice, for readers of Sheila Heti, Nico Walker, and Junot Diaz.
Set in Philadelphia for the most part, FUCCBOI is a raucous, freewheeling and freestyling novel. We follow Sean, our eponymous fuccboi*, as he attempts to live meaningfully and "woke"-ly in an increasingly atomized world.
An aspiring writer, Sean works a variety of unforgiving and unsustainable gigs to survive. Rich UPenn students and other oblivious yuppies blithely send him to pick up chicken fingers in snowstorms via delivery apps, he sets up acres of furniture for tech conventions; he even dabbles in barn-building. When he's not just trying to make ends meet, he's cycling through his roster of baes**, whom he struggles both to genuinely connect with and to avoid objectifying. Throughout, Sean navigates the performative contours of modern social interaction with mixed results. Literature, podcasts, and rap alternately guide and mislead him. Somehow Conroe coaxes us to empathize with the unique struggles of downwardly mobile men like Sean, while slyly undercutting the hypocrisy and inadequacy of his cobbled-together creed.
*fuccboi (plural fuccbois) (slang, vulgar, derogatory) A young man of poor judgment or taste, especially one who is perceived as cowardly or trying too hard to be cool. Or to quote from Bustle: "Those dudes you dated in college or in your 20s that didn't have their shit together at all, but thought there was something endearing about that. They're the kind of guys who try valiantly to get you hammered because that's their most effective method of getting laid."
**bae: a shortened version of baby or babe
Sean Thor Conroe was born Kamura Sho in Tokyo in 1991 and raised in Scotland, Upstate New York, and California; his writing has appeared in New York Tyrant, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, and Volume 1 Brooklyn. He received his BA from Swarthmore College, and is an MFA candidate at Columbia University. He has guest edited New York Tyrant Magazine and is the host of the book podcast 1storypod. He lives in Harlem. FUCCBOI is his first novel.
An aspiring writer, Sean works a variety of unforgiving and unsustainable gigs to survive. Rich UPenn students and other oblivious yuppies blithely send him to pick up chicken fingers in snowstorms via delivery apps, he sets up acres of furniture for tech conventions; he even dabbles in barn-building. When he's not just trying to make ends meet, he's cycling through his roster of baes**, whom he struggles both to genuinely connect with and to avoid objectifying. Throughout, Sean navigates the performative contours of modern social interaction with mixed results. Literature, podcasts, and rap alternately guide and mislead him. Somehow Conroe coaxes us to empathize with the unique struggles of downwardly mobile men like Sean, while slyly undercutting the hypocrisy and inadequacy of his cobbled-together creed.
*fuccboi (plural fuccbois) (slang, vulgar, derogatory) A young man of poor judgment or taste, especially one who is perceived as cowardly or trying too hard to be cool. Or to quote from Bustle: "Those dudes you dated in college or in your 20s that didn't have their shit together at all, but thought there was something endearing about that. They're the kind of guys who try valiantly to get you hammered because that's their most effective method of getting laid."
**bae: a shortened version of baby or babe
Sean Thor Conroe was born Kamura Sho in Tokyo in 1991 and raised in Scotland, Upstate New York, and California; his writing has appeared in New York Tyrant, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, and Volume 1 Brooklyn. He received his BA from Swarthmore College, and is an MFA candidate at Columbia University. He has guest edited New York Tyrant Magazine and is the host of the book podcast 1storypod. He lives in Harlem. FUCCBOI is his first novel.
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Published 2022-01-25 by Little Brown |