Making nice - Matt Sumell

Meet Alby.

Natural habitat: a bar; a boat; his bedroom; a broad's bedroom.

Favourite hobbies: starting fights (then losing them); hooking up with broads (then losing them); hating cats (it's a skill); training Gary the baby bird to be a killer (sort of).

Best kept secret: when his mum died it broke his hear and he doesn't really know what to do about it.

'Sumell's savage humour is thrilling'
New York Times

'Gloriously funny'
Literary Review

'Making Nice has an anarchic humour and a goofy, ingenious humanity that makes every page feel new'
Guardian

Matt Sumell is a graduate of University of California, Irvine's MFA programme, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Sumell's savage humor is thrilling
New York Times

Making Nice has an anarchic humour and a goofy, ingenious humanity that makes every page feel new
Guardian

Alby's voice is perfect... A truly original portrayal of grief
Bookmunch

Gloriously funny
Literary Review

You find yourself laughing aloud and wincing, if not outright groaning at the same time... Magnificent
Irish Examiner