{"product_id":"9781250108944","title":"The Standard Grand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**One of the \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRail\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2017**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nicorvo is a bracingly original writer and a joy to read.\" —Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A desperate masterpiece of a debut\" that tells a huge-hearted American saga—of love, violence, war, conspiracy and the aftermath of them all.\" —Bonnie Jo Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nicorvo’s muscular and energetic prose will stun readers with its poignancy, while providing a punch to the solar plexus.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(Starred Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dash of Coetzee, a dram of Delillo, but mostly just the complicated compassion of Jay Nicorvo. \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutally beautiful novel.\" —Pam Houston, author of \u003ci\u003eContents May Have Shifted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It seems possible that Nicorvo has ingested all the darkness of this life and now breathes fire.” Nick Flynn, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard—and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation—is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith three violent acts at its center—a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past—and set largely in the Catskills, \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar—along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters—soldiers, civilians—struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they’ve caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they’ve caused.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJay Baron Nicorvo's \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its characters—who aspire more to goodness than greatness—this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030138470640,"sku":"9781250108944","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250108944_p0.jpg?v=1763702119","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250108944","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}