Molly

De: Kevin Honold

Narrado por: Sean Lenhart

A compelling story of characters enduring various hardships in rural New Mexico.

This debut novel tells the story of nine-year-old Raymond, nicknamed “Ray Moon” by Molly, his adoptive caretaker, a waitress, and the former partner of his recently deceased uncle. These two outcasts rely on one another for survival, and their bond forms the heart of this book. Living in a trailer atop a mesa in the high desert of New Mexico in 1968, Raymond ages quickly amid hostile circumstances. With the help of a keen imagination that Molly inspires, he navigates various forms of loss and exploitation amid enduring hardship.

Kevin Honold’s deft and trance-like prose is interspersed with sharp insights and brings attention to the displacement of Native Americans, the hardships of capitalism, the ills of misogyny, and the raw hurt of living a displaced or marginalized life. This is a story of endurance, memory, and unceasing change.

Molly was selected by Dan Chaon as the winner of the 2020 Autumn House Fiction Prize.

©2022 Kevin Honold (P)2022 Autumn House Press

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Molly is a wondrously strange and lyrical rural noir, with an almost phantasmagorical vividness in its New Mexico landscape and a tender and heartfelt sympathy for its marginal characters. Honold is a true original.”

— Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will

"There is a particularly satisfying aptness when the beauties of the American Southwest inspire a beautiful book—which Molly is."

— Wall Street Journal

Incredible Writer

Honold! What is a gorgeous writer at the line level, really fluid and lyrical, beautiful book, highly recommend it.