Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

By Nick Flynn

Rating: ☆☆☆☆

“Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?”

-Nick Flynn

Wouldn’t you want to know who your father is? Wouldn’t you want to know who is the other half of your genetic makeup, of who you are as a person? They send you letters, they know you exist, but wouldn’t you want to meet them?

Nick Flynn’s mother took her two kids and left their father six months after Nick was born. She just packed up and took them with her. So as a single mother she struggled to make ends meet. Working at a bank and then working weekends and some nights at bars and restaurants to support her two kids and herself. Flynn grows up, he becomes a writer, like his “father”, the only difference is that Flynn wasn’t in prison and Flynn’s works have been published.

This is a story of Flynn finding his father, or more likely stumbling onto his father at  a homeless shelter he was working at. Of finding a part of who he is and discovering who he wants to be because of who his father is.

I would recommend this book to certain people, it’s not an easy read. At first it was difficult to understand because it’s written in non-chronological order, like a drunk man writing a book. Kind of all over the place and hazy. It was a really interesting read, and gives you a lot of insight into who Nick Flynn is, but it’s difficult to follow at times.