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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