Being Flynn: A Memoir; Originally Published as Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up." With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a powerful narrative voice unlike any other, Being Flynn illuminates the hidden story of fathers and sons in America. Nick Flynn has written a remarkable testament to the enduring strength of one boy's struggle for survival. Nick met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager, he'd received letters from this stranger, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Being Flynn tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally, to each other.

About the Author :
Nick Flynn is an award-winning poet and author most recently of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

Review :
"A stunningly beautiful new memoir...A near-perfect work of literature." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "Flynn's talents are considerable--he has a compelling voice and a wry sense of humor, especially about himself." -- "New York Times" "Likely one of the best books you will read...Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, it has been compared to Conroy's Stop-Time and David Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius but is really in a class by itself. Highly recommended." -- "Library Journal" "My favorite book of the past few years, and the best memoir since Stop-Time, This Boy's Life, and Liar's Club." -- "Chris Offutt, author of Kentucky Straight" "Nick Flynn's devastating memoir does what only significant works of art can do--it shows us a world we know, but fail to see or understand. No one who reads [Being Flynn] will ever walk through a city in the same way again. If I say that Flynn's book ranks with Frank Conroy's Stop-Time, I mean it as the highest possible praise." -- "Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours" "Punchy language...The book never seems hopeless, because readers know the author has succeeded at doing what his father only pretended to do: write, and write well." -- "Publishers Weekly" "Tough as nails and tender as a bruise, Flynn's muscular, poetic language renders this hard-knock tale transcendent." -- "Washington Post" "Ultimately, this book is an artful meditation on how we decide how much we are limited--or enhanced by--what we inherit, and on how difficult it is to give and receive care in this world." -- "New York Times Book Review" "What a piece of work...eloquent, funny, unsentimental, and bravely inventive." -- "Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"