A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill?s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.
It?s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson?college professor, stalled writer?has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn?t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she?s reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country.
To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that take him across generations and countries, and stretch all the way back to Norway, the original home of the mysterious Nix. In doing so, Samuel will not only confront Faye?s losses, but also his own lost love, and relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself..
