Lolito - Softcover

"I love Ben Brooks. And Lolito is really something else. A twisted age-gap love story that is deadpan and grubby and strangely poetic and funny and wrong and also very right."--Matt Haig, author of "The Humans "

"Brooks acutely captures what it means to be a 21st-century youth. The seamless inclusion of Facebook statuses and online chats throughout the text captures the hybrid nature of a life lived partially online."--Dima Alzayat "The Financial Times "

"Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away."--Nick Cave

"Etgar is painfully self-conscious and self-deprecating; he inhabits that familiar teen mindset where every little thing is the most crucial event in your life, until it's not anymore, and then it's sad and funny at the same time. His staccato narration, interspersed with references to pop culture and the Internet, manages to get at genuine teen anxieties while still being hilarious."--Allison Chopin "New York Daily News "

"Lolito is a credible, often exquisite work sure to court at least a little controversy in its depiction of ageless (im)maturity... Lolito won't ever become a tiny corner forgotten."--Declan Tan "The Huffington Post "

"If this all sounds like an episode of the British TV show Skins, well, you wouldn't be wrong...both rely on the affect of grittiness for their appeal while simultaneously featuring teenagers who are as fragile as a Morrissey song."--Eric Howell "Electric Literature "

"Written in Brooks's distinctively funny and ennui-infused voice, Lolito is a wildly entertaining narrative about love gone wrong that explores guilt while fully embracing, and exposing in an almost voyeuristic fashion, the dramas, thought processes, deplorable online behaviors, and attitudes of a regular male teenager."--Gabino Iglesias, author of Gutmouth "Verbicide Magazine "

"Brooks is a master of this art."--The Times

"Both warm and uncompromising, Lolito will be as entertaining for young adults as it is educational for older readers. And if some aspects of the world Brooks inhabits seem alarming, I can't think of a writer I would rather have as my guide."--The Guardian

"This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written."--Dazed & Confused

Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire, England. He is the author of five other books Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks's work has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology. He enjoys tea, sleep, and Haruki Murakami.