Adam Mansbach may be best known today for his not-quite-for-children's book "Go the F*** to Sleep," but this literary novel is evidence that his range as a writer is broad. In this story set in the New York of the 1980s, a graffiti artist named Rage comes back to the city – and his son – after years on the lam. Nelson says the book is somewhat reminiscent of Eleanor Henderson's "Ten Thousand Saints" (in that both powerfully evoke New York at a certain moment in time). She calls Rage "a great sort of angry, raspy-voiced character."
