After delivering a $2
billion Star Wars sequel with the 2015 hit The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams in
now moving forward with a television adaptation of Nathan Hill's The Nix, which
he will produce as well as direct some of the episodes.
Furthermore, Meryl Streep,
who recently received rave reviews for her performance in the biopic Florence
Foster Jenkins, is set to star in the lead role. Additionally, the Academy
Awards sweetheart is also producing the project alongside Abrams.
In the novel:
A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it
is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away.
In Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one
day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college
professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t
seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now
she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the
nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided
country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but
as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her
high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are
certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help.
To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own
journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew,
secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back
in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not
only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he
thought he knew about his mother, and himself.
From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968
riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with
sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in
times of radical change.
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