You Will Behave

by Matt Getty

You Will Behave begins with a mother reprimanding her son for raping his sister's Barbie Doll with Darth Vader's light-saber. She tells him that he will apologize, that he will bury the doll, that Darth will look Ken in the eye and confess his crime.

Only she doesn't stop there.

In this same tone, she proceeds to tell her son his entire life story. The result is a dark and uproarious tale of love, violence, and what little difference there is between the two. Told entirely in the second person future, You Will Behave is at once a heart-felt coming of age story and a send up of the very idea of coming of age at all.

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You Will Behave
Perfect Bound (Trade Paperback)
68 pages
ISBN: 0-9774186-1-8
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“Breathtaking”

–Esquire

“Remarkably inventive and remarkably funny, Matt Getty's You Will Behave is a remarkably dead-on exploration of what it means to grow up male in middle America, rendered in a prose that's as sharp and fine as it is original. Matt Getty is the real thing.”

Richard McCann, author of
Mother of Sorrows

You Will Behave truly is a sucker punch. Narratively cute, it pulls the reader into an ugly world wherein violence and sexuality are forever intertwined. It questions that link and doesn't flinch from honest answers. And it doesn't hurt that it's funny as hell.

Dave Clapper, Editor ofSmokeLong Quarterly

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