Hannah Crow

Redemptive love, of a scurrilous type, is the theme of this edgy debut, in which a memorable cast of minor characters orbit Crow's troubled English protagonist. Nineteen-year-old Lee Trebilcock (pronounced "Tre-Bill-Coe") is a "tom-cat with the birds," a Swedish pornography enthusiast and a working-class everylad who lives with his dotty mother,...