The ABA has announced their Indie Next List picks for May and Willy Vlautin’s newest novel Lean On Pete (Harper Perennial) has been selected. Here is what Kevin Ryan of Green Apple Books in San Francisco had to say about Lean On Pete:
I have been a big fan of Willy Vlautin’s since his first book, Motel Life. Lean on Pete, his third, is his best. It is the harrowing and heartbreaking story of a high school-aged boy in the Portland area who is set adrift when his father dies. With no resources and nowhere else to go, he sets out to find an aunt who may or may not still be in Wyoming. Vlautin’s prose is skillfully without artifice, telling the story directly and cleanly, and we ache as our protagonist tries to make his way in an indifferent and sometimes dangerous world.
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