Drug-addled yard workers. Black-marketeering militiamen. Aimless celebrity impersonators. Narcotizedpuffer fish. And at the center of it all, a pair of glue-huffing cousins who attempt to cope with the relentlessdisasters of their lives by building giant trash monuments that attract their own strange fanatics. Welcome toThe Great American Suction, a frenzied portrait of struggle and collapse – and occasional resuscitation – inthe ruts and nooks of a beleaguered heartland.Praise forThe Great American Suction…A celebratory comic romp from a big-hearted writer. -George Saunders”The Great American Suction is a glorious, glitteringheap of astonishing prose and devastating human shenanigans. Its also an example of truth in advertisingbecause its great, its American, and it sucks the pettiness right out of you. What a beautiful and hilarious novel! Every sentence is a new adventure, and another chance at life. -Sam Lipsyte, author ofHarkandThe AskDavid Nutts hilarious debut novel is written in energetic, witty, wonderfully inventive prose. His perfectly timed riffs and set pieces skewer American conceits, but his characters are shot through with an eccentric kind of joy. Nutts voice is truly new, a marvel or wry tenderness. -Dana Spiotta, author ofInnocentsandOthersandStone ArabiaLife has burned a hole in the pockets of Shaker, the aptly named up-and-at-em down-and-outer wambling his way through the full spread of our present squalor in this ultravivid, live wire of a debut novel. Page after page, David Nutt shocks the language into a killingly original blaze. -Gary Lutz, author ofStories in the Worst Way”In David Nutts luminous debut novel, the perennially put-upon protagonists existence consists of a daisy chain of half-baked calamities. A brain-damaged post-postmodern anti-hero, Shakers a not-so-innocent Josef K. for the culture that births precocious meth chefs and celebrity impersonator wannabes. Dystopian, and by that, I mean contemporary, this debut ratchets up the possibilities of prose with its stylistic virtuosity while laying bare the toxic underbelly of the garbage art crowd. If youre a fan of David OhlesMotormanor Sam LipsytesVenus Drive,The Great American Suctionawaits you.”Christopher Kennedy, author ofClues from the Animal KingdomandEnnui Prophet