Our Secret Life in the Movies - Softcover

"Wildly intelligent and deeply felt, Our Secret Life in the Movies gives us a fascinating look at American life, shot through an insightful and compassionate lens. After reading it, the world seems bigger. A tremendous book."--Molly Antopol "Reading Our Secret Life in the Movies is like finding a lost frequency on the AM dial. The voices you hear in this book are strange, hypnotic, and intensely American."--Jim Gavin "A book of poignant and affecting beauty. Readers are presented with characters who are losing their innocence in lockstep with the changing nation they inhabit, and the end result is a book that provides great insight into both who we are and how we got this way. A remarkable achievement."--Skip Horack "A beautiful aftershock of the movies."--David Gordon Green "An intriguing, frequently affecting experiment that challenges its readers to think anew about sharpening and refracting their memories of both life and art."--Kirkus Reviews "Brilliant."--BBC "Indelibly wrought." --Vogue "A co authored mash note to cinema classics."--The Paris Review Daily

Fiction. Film Studies. A whip-smart fiction debut, OUR SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES riffs on classic and cult cinema. Inspired by films from silent-era documentaries to music videos, the authors unfold a dual narrative about two boys growing up in the 1980s. Coming of age during the last days of the Cold War, these boys dream of space exploration and nuclear winter, Reaganomics and Dungeons & Dragons,Blade Runner and Red Dawn. Haunting, cinematic, and full of life, OUR SECRET LIFE makes it clear that we are in the movies and the movies are in us.

"Wildly intelligent and deeply felt, OUR SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES gives us a fascinating look at American life, shot through an insightful and compassionate lens. After reading it, the world seems bigger. A tremendous book."—Molly Antopol

"Reading OUR SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES is like finding a lost frequency on the AM dial. The voices you hear in this book are strange, hypnotic, and intensely American."—Jim Gavin

"A book of poignant and affecting beauty. Readers are presented with characters who are losing their innocence in lockstep with the changing nation they inhabit, and the end result is a book that provides great insight into both who we are and how we got this way. A remarkable achievement."—Skip Horack

"A beautiful aftershock of the movies."—David Gordon Green

"An intriguing, frequently affecting experiment that challenges its readers to think anew about sharpening and refracting their memories of both life and art."—Kirkus Reviews

"Brilliant."
"Ten books to read in November."—BBC.com

"Indelibly wrought."
"The Best Under-the-Radar Books for Fall: 8 Indie Novels and Stories to Put on Your Reading List."—Vogue

"A coauthored mash note to cinema classics."—The Paris Review Daily