On New Year’s Day, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel, The Great Gatsby, entered into the public domain. Fitzgerald’s words are now available to be published by anyone. In Michael Farris Smith’s case, prequels of characters can be written too. Smith wrote the new novel, Nick. It follows Nick Carraway, the character and narrator from Fitzgerald’s world-renowned book. Before Carraway moved to West Egg, he was a soldier in war, a resident of many cities, and subject to heartbreak, violence, alcoholism, childhood trauma, and deceit.
This book has an interesting sentence style and voice that reminds you of classic authors like Fitzgerald or Hemmingway, which allows it to fit right in with its predecessor. With 52 short chapters, this book is an interesting look at Nick Carraway from someone who did not originally create him.

















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Comment text: Nevada truly is beautiful and Fallon has so many different bird species! Keep up the great work!!
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Comment text: September 11, article Civics 101
I would like to commend Rachael Dahl and the Fallon post for their article. Civics 101. This is a reminder that we as citizens live in a representative form of government and why it is so important that we vote as voting is our way of making our voice heard.
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