Gabriel Smith

Gabriel's skin is falling off. His dad is dead and his mum is dying. He owes his editor a novel. And his girlfriend won't answer his calls. Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel's sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents' old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there's a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive, Brat is a meditation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.