Foy's second novel is a tornado of brutal Americana.
Patricide is a heavy metal Huck Finn that whips up the haunted melancholy of Kerouac's Doctor Sax, a novel of introspection and youth in its corruption that seethes with the deadly obsession of Moby-Dick, and the darkness of Joy Williams' State of Grace .
Beyond the story of a boy growing up in a family derailed by a hapless father, Patricide is a search for meaning and identity wit.