BRAT

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Gabriel's skin is falling off.His dad is dead.He owes his editor a novel.His girlfriend won't answer his calls.Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel's sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents' old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there's a hideous man in the garden.Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly- paced but formally inventive, Brat is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.