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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER IN AMERICA

WINNER OF THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES PATTERSON PRIZE in collaboration with Bookshop.org
Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Washington Post and New York Times Book Review

In the summer of 1998, a pudgy, pasty teenager called Nathaniel Rothstein walks into Terry Tucker’s Boxing Gym in Austin, Texas. For weeks he comes back almost every day, working out obsessively, transforming himself into something new. Then one night at the height of summer, he disappears without a trace.

The Slip follows the extraordinary fallout of that night across twenty years – the dominoes toppling around a dizzying cast of characters – as Nathaniel’s disappearance saves some lives and ruins others. Majestic and far-reaching, it is a gripping literary mystery about racial tensions in modern America, about immigrants and police officers and ordinary citizens, about queerness and belonging, money and gentrification, coming of age and growing old.

Above all it is a novel of the immortal American dream, grappling with all the ways, good and bad, chosen and forced, that a person can slip out of their own story – and into someone else’s.



About the Author :
Lucas Schaefer lives in Austin, Texas. His first novel, The Slip, was published in the US in June 2025 and went on to become a national bestseller and to win the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and was selected as a book of the year by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. Lucas’s writing has appeared in the Paris Review, One Story, Baffler and other publications.

Review :
Franzen/Roth/Irving comparisons are earned and deserved... Not since Nathan Hill’s The Nix have we seen a debut as hugely ambitious as this one Wildly ambitious and immensely rewarding, a maximalist debut that brings to mind Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in its stylistic brio, vivid sociological detail and general air of chutzpah. You’re unlikely to read a more impressive first novel this year Wildly, transgressively hilarious, reminiscent of Philip Roth’s early novels . . . This is a high-wire act, but the breadth of Schaefer’s affection feels as wide as the depth of his comedy This is a character-based pop novel done right: accessible, unpretentious, hard-hitting . . . A tremendously strong novel Lucas Schaefer writes with a self-assurance that’s stylish but not showy. Fans of John Irving, Paul Murray and Nathan Hill will find a whole lot to love in this knockout of a novel A big, bold, brave, brilliant beast of a novel. Uproarious and tender, epic in scope and intimate in portraiture, crammed with so many outlandish incidents and exquisitely rendered characters you'll wonder how one novel can possibly contain them all, but Schaefer pulls it off with aplomb. As fearless and enjoyable a debut as you're likely to read this year A sweaty masterpiece . . . Honestly, I haven’t felt quite like this about a book since I was dazzled by Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections almost 25 years ago. But despite his equally capacious reach, Schaefer is no Franzen wannabe. If anything, he’s looser, confident enough to be sweet, and despite his richly comic voice, this satiric tongue never develops fangs . . . I spent most of the week not just reading this story but cheering it on in a state of unhinged excitement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405998178
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Edition: New edition
  • ISBN-10: 1405998172
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English


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