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The Hundred Year Flood
The Hundred Year Flood | Matthew Salesses
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In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang, Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, The Hundred Year Flood. This beautiful and dreamlike debut follows twenty-two-year-old Tee as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle's suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. His life intertwines with Pavel Picasso, a painter famous for revolution; Katka, his equally alluring wife; and Picasso's partner--a giant of a man with an American name. In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts.
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Sweettartlaura
The Hundred Year Flood | Matthew Salesses
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Bailedbailed

Another DNF for me.
It‘s not awful. But I‘m not in the mood for another navel-gazing self-important non-story.

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Bookishaf
The Hundred Year Flood | Matthew Salesses
Mehso-so

The ending came together better than I thought it would. Tee travels to Prague after his uncle's suicide where he works to confront his own identity both as a Korean American and an adopted child, love, relationships and growing up in general. All the while, a 100 yr flood is coming that threatens to disrupt his life in Prague. Took me a week to read when it's only 233 pages so a little slow going but the ending helped it redeem itself.

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Bookishaf
The Hundred Year Flood | Matthew Salesses
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It's taking me too long to read this one but I still want to finish it! Ugh. I just can't quit on a book yet.

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catieohjoy
The Hundred Year Flood | Matthew Salesses
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My little Kindle TBR. I go through major phases with books, neglecting different mediums of reading for a few weeks or even months at a time. Lately I've been all about paper books, and before that it was audiobooks, so now it's time to get back to my Kindle. First up: The Hundred-Year Flood.

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doodley
The Hundred Year Flood | Matthew Salesses
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The only way to survive at school events.