Made to Break

* One of the best books of 2014 Flavorwire,Entropy MagazineTwo days before New Years, a pack of five friendsthree men and two womenhead to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. Theyve been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin,there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves.With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory,D. Foy is an incendiary new voice andMade to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolao.Made to Break, D. Foys debut novel, snaps. Literary, cinematic... [Foy] is a writing school of one, andMade to Breakushers his literary energies into categorical existence.The Daily Beast