How to Be Safe: A Novel [Hardcover]

Tom McAllistersAnna sees that something is rotten in these United States, and she refuses to gloss over it. . . . [Scalding. . . .[Vicious, hilarious, shocking and sad,Explosive, senseless, and utterly chaotic, Tom McAllister'sA gutting, shocking novel that circles a small-town tragedy,Haunting.Combining a deep character study, prescient satire, and an unfortunately all-too-timely evisceration of U.S. gun culture, McAllisters well-voiced and remarkably observed page-turner is in almost all ways an anti-thrilleritself a comment on the current, terrifying mundanity of similar events.It's heartening to see a male writer explore the issue [of toxic masculinity] with such nuance. McAllister deserves tremendous credit for his perceptive work here. . . . The author's indictment of a violent, paranoid society is searing.This darkly humorous primal scream of a novel takes as its subject the madness of modern American life. . . . this book is compelling from start to finish.Brilliant, tragically timely . . . . This novel is an indictment of gun culture, hot-take journalism, and social media, and if that sounds like a miserable premise for a novel, fear not: McAllister is a brave and stylish writer, and Anna is a singular creation. . . . Intensely smart. Sharply written.This is one of those books you don't know if you can read, and then after you don't know how you lived in a world without it. It's chock full of the things that are killing us: mass shootings, misogyny, the internet, media frenzies, tribalism. And it's so wonderful - so furious and so funny and urgent and needed in this mad ugly space we're sharing with each other. I can't believe this book was written by a man - but I'm so happy Tom McAllister wrote it.A kaleidoscopic portrait of a Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of a school shooting,A