One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated Books of 2022"
One of PureWow's "10 Books We Can't Wait to Read in January"
One of BookShop.org's "Notable New Releases"
One of The New York Times Book Review's "16 New Books Coming in
January"
One of Poets & Writers' "New and Noteworthy Books"
"David Sanchez's first novel--brilliant, lyrical, hilarious,
heartbreaking--is the definitive handbook to hell and back . . . A
stunning debut."--Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban
For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and
ultimately redemptive debut novel about coming of age on Florida's
drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and
self.
David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby
Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's
Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of
fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his
journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly.
Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and
rehab, trying to make sense of the world around him--a sunken world
where faith in anything is a privilege. He makes his way to a tenuous
sobriety, but it isn't until he takes a literature class at a community
college that something within him ignites.
All Day is a Long Time is a spectacular, raw account of growing up and
managing, against every expectation, to carve out a place for hope. We
see what it means, and what it takes, to come back from a place of
little control--to map ourselves on the world around, and beyond, us.
David Sanchez's debut resounds with real force and demonstrates the
redemptive power of the written word.
