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It's such an easy argument to make, but this book certainly was too long.

While its main plot is a gripping tale of a complex mother-son relationship and a journey of discovery and understanding into the mother's past, some odd side plots and detours are included. Lengthy descriptions of a computer game and a revengeful young student feels like foreign objects in this bombastic novel.

Hill is a gifted writer and The Nix is an impressing debut novel. The timing is just off; the powerful revelations come a little too late and the jokes become too drawn out, too aware of their own presence.