"Exposing the belly of the male beast is a brave thing to do. Brian Sweany writes like an American Martin Amis, and that's a great thing." --Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight "Funny and tragic, occasionally even a warm, homespun homage-to-me-familia, but it is the dark and subversive stretches that burned deeply into my psyche and kept me turning the page." --Sonny Brewer, author of The Poet of Tolstoy Park "A fast-paced, easy to read story that...will hold your attention from the first line in the prologue to the very last page." --Mary Monroe, author of Lost Daughters "By turns funny, dark, and darkly funny, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride definitely won't disappoint." --Jon Clinch, author of Finn "The kind of coming-of-age story that appears every few years and instantly becomes a classic." --Larry D. Sweazy, author of A Thousand Falling Crows "Prepare yourself for a nostalgic, strikingly honest trip back to your yearning youth. It will do more than jog your memory; it will run your memory over with a juggernaut of hormones, teen confusion, and dawning awareness." --David L. Robbins, author of War of the Rats
