Flashlight in the games played by

in the games played by men

Facing their first Christmas without their beloved Grams

and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble

his faith in the transformative powers of a good story

Flashlight in the games played byShort listed for the Booker Prize Long listed for the National Book Award "The first major American novel to be published this year." Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." Sam Worley, New York Magazine A Must Read: The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The Chicago Review of Books, Forbes, Literary Hub, and