BRAT

A Ghost Story

By: Gabriel Smith

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Paperback | 2 July 2025

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336 Pages

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19.8 x 13.0 x 2.01

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THE INSTANT CULT CLASSIC FROM THE WINNER OF THE O. HENRY PRIZE

Gabriel’s skin is falling off.

His dad is dead.

He owes his editor a novel.

His girlfriend won’t answer his calls.

Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.

Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive, Brat is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.

From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.

About the Author

Gabriel Smith is an author living in London. A winner of the 2023 PEN/ O. Henry Award, his fiction has appeared in The Drift, New York Tyrant Magazine, and The Moth. He was mentored by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant Books.

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