Stephen Florida

"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study."
--Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life

Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.

Gabe Habash is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in New York.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 06/06/2017
ISBN: 9781566894647
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 03/27/2017
Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 75
Booklist 05/01/2017 pg. 60