03940cam a2200553 4500 2345730658 TxAuBib 20250614120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781668030721 1668030721 B0DJ3FQWRM Amazon ce3bf6a9-dbfa-44a9-9c82-6ad2285bf919 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11217131 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schaefer, Lucas. The Slip [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. teenage transformation. cultural exploration. transformative power. multiple timelines. boxing renaissance. mistaken identity. literary fiction. Jonathan Franzen. US Mexico Border. radical honesty. Race and Gender. missing person. sports fiction. American novel. Fluid Identity. mystery novel. texas fiction. trans stories. phone hotline. teen romance. debut novel. boxing ring. nathan hill. boxing gym. HTML:<b>Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, NPR, <i>LitHub</i>, <i>Debutiful</i>, and <i>CrimeReads</i></b><br /> <br /> <b>For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.</b><br /> Austin, Texas: It's the summer of 1998, and there's a new face on the scene at Terry Tucker's Boxing Gym. Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein has never felt comfortable in his own skin, but under the tutelage of a swaggering, Haitian-born ex-fighter named David Dalice, he begins to come into his own. Even the boy's slightly stoned uncle, Bob Alexander, who is supposed to be watching him for the summer, notices the change. Nathaniel is happier, more confident—tanner, even. Then one night he vanishes, leaving little trace behind.<br /> <br /> Across the city, Charles Rex, now going simply by "X," has been undergoing a teenage transformation of his own, trolling the phone sex hotline that his mother works, seeking an outlet for everything that feels wrong about his body, looking for intimacy and acceptance in a culture that denies him both. As a surprising and unlikely romance blooms, X feels, for a moment, like he might have found the safety he's been searching for. But it's never that simple.<br /> <br /> More than a decade later, Nathaniel's uncle Bob receives a shocking tip, propelling him to open his own investigation into his nephew's disappearance. The resulting search involves gymgoers past and present, including a down-on-his-luck twin and his opportunistic brother; a rookie cop determined to prove herself; and Alexis Cepeda, a promising lightweight, who crossed the US-Mexico border when he was only fourteen, carrying with him a license bearing the wrong name and face.<br /> <br /> Bobbing and weaving across the ever-shifting canvas of a changing country, <i>The Slip</i> is an audacious, daring look at sex and race in America that builds to an unforgettable collision in the center of the ring. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-06-14 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ce3bf6a9-dbfa-44a9-9c82-6ad2285bf919&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ce3bf6a9-dbfa-44a9-9c82-6ad2285bf919&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)