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    Under the Same Stars

    By Tim Lott

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    When two brothers take a road trip to visit their ill father, their journey reveals, not only an unexpected friendship, but also some surprising truth

    It is late summer 2008 and forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother, Carson's home in New Orleans.

    It is Carson who has persuaded Salinger that they should visit their estranged father on his deathbed in Las Cruces, and use it as an opportunity to heal old wounds. However it is with a sense of foreboding that Salinger sets off with his brother on a road trip from New Orleans in Carson's prized brand new Lexus, as their relationship is far from amicable.

    Tender, funny, unflinching, this is a road trip story in the great American literary tradition and an exploration of sibling rivalry that harks back to Cain and Abel. It is a vivid glimpse of a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound exploration of brotherhood and a gripping journey of the soul.

    'With its tender, funny, unflinchingly exploration of sibling rivalry, this is a vivid glimpse of a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound exploration of brotherhood and a gripping journey of the soul' - GQ

    'There is a tragic rejection at the heart of the story. Lott is attempting to solve what he sees as a deep-rooted crime against humanity, excavating the blank spaces beneath the rawness of everyday life' - Independent

    'Under the Same Stars, a tender-hearted novel of sibling rivalries, is no less memorable than his family memoir The Scent of Dried Roses' - Spectator
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateMar 29, 2012
    ISBN9781849835831
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    Under the Same Stars
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    Tim Lott

    Tim Lott is the author of seven novels and a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, which won the PEN/J.R. Ackerley Prize. White City Blue won the Whitbread First Novel Award and his young adult book Fearless was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Award. Tim lives with his family in north-west London. Visit his website www.timlott.co.uk

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      41. [Under the Same Stars] by [[Tim Lott]]A lovely book, as one has come to expect from Tim Lott. As usual there is a dysfunctional family at the heart of the story. In this instance the family issues revolve around sibling rivalry augmented by resentment towards an absent father. The principal character is Salinger Nash, so-named because his father loved American novelists. Still, it could have been worse - in fact it was for his elder brother Carson who was named for the female novelist Carson McCullers (though he had always convinced himself that he was named after Kit Carson). The novel, which is set in the summer of 2008 just as the worldwide banking crisis is coming to its cataclysmic fruition. opens with Carson, who has lived in New Orleans for the last twenty years, phoning Salinger to tell him that their father is dying. Carson thinks that they should oth travel to New Mexico to see him. Salinger, who has had mental health issues for as long as he can remember, is at first unsure whether he wants to have any contact with either his father or his brother. However he is persuaded to go, and a couple of weeks later flies over to New Orleans where he is reunited with Carson who, it now transpires, is an ardent born-again Christian though not without a strong strain of bigotry.The two brothers then set off on a road-trp across Texas with dire, and often hilarious consequences, encountering native American shamans, redneck cops and a succession of surly waitresses.The description of the road trip is excellently done - very funny though always utterly plausible - and the emotional pitch remains taut.Most enjoyable!