Fuccboi

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“Terse and intense and new…I loved it.” –Tommy Orange, author of There There

“Fuccboi is its generation’s coming of age novel…Utterly of its moment, of this moment.”–Jay McInereny, Wall Street Journal

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying new voice.

Set in Philly one year into Trump’s presidency, Sean Thor Conroe’s audacious, freewheeling debut follows our eponymous fuccboi, Sean, as he attempts to live meaningfully in a world that doesn’t seem to need him. Reconciling past, failed selves–cross-country walker, SoundCloud rapper, weed farmer–he now finds himself back in his college city, trying to write, doing stimulant-fueled bike deliveries to eat. Unable to accept that his ex has dropped him, yet still engaged in all the same fuckery–being coy and spineless, dodging decisions, maintaining a rotation of baes–that led to her leaving in the first place. But now Sean has begun to wonder, how sustainable is this mode? How much fuckery is too much fuckery?

Written in a riotous, utterly original idiom, and slyly undercutting both the hypocrisy of our era and that of Sean himself, Fuccboi is an unvarnished, playful, and searching examination of what it means to be a man.

“Got under my skin in the way the best writing can.” –Sheila Heti

“Sean Conroe isn’t one of the writers there’s a hundred of. He writes what’s his own, his own way.” –Nico Walker, author of Cherry

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sean Thor Conroe
Published: 01/17/2023
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316394918
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.60″ W

About the Author

Sean Thor Conroe is a Japanese-American writer. He was born in Tokyo in 1991 and was raised in Scotland, upstate New York, and the greater Bay Area. He studied literature and philosophy at Swarthmore College, and attended the Columbia University School of the Arts. He has guest edited New York Tyrant Magazine and hosts the book podcast 1storypod.