A Romantic Tragicomedy of Faith, Family, and Folly
Ross, twenty-three, isn’t nearly as clever as he thinks he is. His brilliant idea to break up with his girlfriend, Lora Liamant, in an attempt to show her how terrible other men are and how empty life would be without him, has backfired spectacularly. Within weeks, he discovers she��s moved on with the brother of a famous network TV actor. In the midst of his heartbreak, Ross’s parents die tragically—in a helicopter crash at an all-inclusive resort in Turks and Caicos—leaving him with millions of dollars and custody over his teenage sister.
Traumatized, ruminating, and rich, Ross plots scheme after scheme to show Lora he’s changed into a responsible adult, even as she shows no indication of wanting that. Everything he does seems to make matters worse, as his misguided mission of self-transformation only leads to Lora’s confusion and dismay.
Let Me Try Again is an electric picaresque charting a young Jewish man’s spiral of neurotic pride and self-improvement within a culture that only caters to his worst impulses. Brimming with vitality and crackling with wit, Matthew Davis’s dynamic debut illuminates the absurdities of twenty-first-century life with ecstatic flair.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Ross, twenty-three, isn’t nearly as clever as he thinks he is. His brilliant idea to break up with his girlfriend, Lora Liamant, in an attempt to show her how terrible other men are and how empty life would be without him, has backfired spectacularly. Within weeks, he discovers she��s moved on with the brother of a famous network TV actor. In the midst of his heartbreak, Ross’s parents die tragically—in a helicopter crash at an all-inclusive resort in Turks and Caicos—leaving him with millions of dollars and custody over his teenage sister.
Traumatized, ruminating, and rich, Ross plots scheme after scheme to show Lora he’s changed into a responsible adult, even as she shows no indication of wanting that. Everything he does seems to make matters worse, as his misguided mission of self-transformation only leads to Lora’s confusion and dismay.
Let Me Try Again is an electric picaresque charting a young Jewish man’s spiral of neurotic pride and self-improvement within a culture that only caters to his worst impulses. Brimming with vitality and crackling with wit, Matthew Davis’s dynamic debut illuminates the absurdities of twenty-first-century life with ecstatic flair.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Matthew Davis's singular voice gripped me from the first page and didn't let go. I adored this off-kilter, hilarious, and surprisingly vulnerable novel." - Anna Dorn
"Genuinely funny and subversive in the blasphemous spirit of Roth. Matthew Davis has created a truly diabolical protagonist." - Lexi Freiman
"Matthew Davis has a distinct, charming and compelling voice--funny, original, contemporary and clear, with sprinkles of Bret Easton Ellis, Philip Roth, and even Helen DeWitt." - Sheila Heti
"A total tour de force. Voice of a generation mode. Beyond irony and sincerity, it's just real. Sweet, silly, sensitive, smart." - Honor Levy
"I highly enjoyed this darkly comical, compulsively readable novel about love and obsession. Woody Allen-esque." - Tao Lin
"Matthew Davis is that startling anomaly: a real writer in unreal times." - Bruce Wagner
"Genuinely funny and subversive in the blasphemous spirit of Roth. Matthew Davis has created a truly diabolical protagonist." - Lexi Freiman
"Matthew Davis has a distinct, charming and compelling voice--funny, original, contemporary and clear, with sprinkles of Bret Easton Ellis, Philip Roth, and even Helen DeWitt." - Sheila Heti
"A total tour de force. Voice of a generation mode. Beyond irony and sincerity, it's just real. Sweet, silly, sensitive, smart." - Honor Levy
"I highly enjoyed this darkly comical, compulsively readable novel about love and obsession. Woody Allen-esque." - Tao Lin
"Matthew Davis is that startling anomaly: a real writer in unreal times." - Bruce Wagner
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