Bibliograph

Shader, 99 notes on car washes, making out in church, grief, and other unlearnable subjects, by Daniel Nester

Type

Label

Shader, 99 notes on car washes, making out in church, grief, and other unlearnable subjects, by Daniel Nester

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shader

Oclc number

921166739

Responsibility statement

by Daniel Nester

Sub title

99 notes on car washes, making out in church, grief, and other unlearnable subjects

Summary

In 2013, Daniel Nester's estranged father died penniless and alone in a small apartment in Tucson. The news brings back a flood of memories about Mike Nester, an enigmatic truck driver with a genius IQ, who influences Daniel's worldview with conspiracy theories, philosophy books, and something called "The Nester Curse." Told in short chapters, this is a semi-comic coming-of-age story of a music-obsessed Catholic boy who searches for a new identity outside of Maple Shade, N.J., a blue-collar town straight out of a Bruce Springsteen song and where Martin Luther King, Jr. was once thrown out of a bar at gunpoint. The town's rough-and-tumble inhabitants, called Shaders, don't suffer record nerds like Daniel gladly, and eventually punk rock and poetry saves his life. A story of redemption and working through grief, Shader tells the story of what it means to leave a place that never leaves you

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