Tampa Alissa Nutting Sample -

The Realtor of Sun City Center

This sample mimics Nutting’s use of visceral, grotesque imagery, a deadpan first-person narrator with questionable morals, and a setting (Florida) that acts as a character in itself—sultry, decaying, and absurdly comic. tampa alissa nutting sample

The novel follows Celeste’s calculated mission to groom and assault 14-year-old boys at Jefferson Junior High in suburban Tampa, Florida. Unlike traditional narratives that might offer a sympathetic backstory or "trauma" to explain her behavior, Nutting presents Celeste as a finished product: a remorseless sociopath who views others only as tools for her gratification. The Realtor of Sun City Center This sample

I drive back over the Howard Frankland Bridge, the bay below me the color of a dirty aquarium. I roll down the window and let the wind eat my hair. Another soul tucked into a stucco coffin. Another commission check for a woman who teaches tenth-grade English and thinks about her students’ fathers during third period. I drive back over the Howard Frankland Bridge,