Sloppy: Or: Doing It All WrongFrom the James Beard Award nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts and all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different: Bettie Page meets Carrie Bradshaw."Washington Post With Rax King's trademark blend of irreverent humor and heartfelt honesty comes a new collection of personal essays unpacking bad behavior. Sloppy explores sobriety, begrudging self improvement, and the

Sensual as well as sensational

The journey out is grueling

Or on as little as one needs to survive

By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy

including Flannery O’Connor

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident

and a figure that was the stuff of legend

he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires

and what such enormous firms do to the families whose fate is bound up in the land

love letters

An inspired fusion of fact and invention

at the peak of his powers