Stephen Florida is also, at its strongest and truest core, an intricate, book-length study of Florida himself-hypnotic, self-aggrandizing, frequently disturbing, sometimes startlingly lucid-and through Florida’s dumbly savvy voice Habash asks bold, difficult questions about the challenges and compromises that complicate true resolve.įlorida’s singular narration is the heart and engine of Habash’s novel, with all the digressive strangeness and boastful grandeur of Captain Ahab shot through with . . . Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash’s tough, smart debut novel, is an ode to the solitude and rigor of college wrestling, its guts and its glory: mats smelling of disinfectant and jittery vomit in locker room sinks running bleachers and two-a-days and savage rivalries based on arbitrary brackets hand-meat mashed by teeth, singlets twisted and threatening to tear, fingers in eye sockets, knee joints, and assholes heartbreak and loss.
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