I found Last Acts hard to read and tried three times to get into it. The story, and its characters, seem odd and just didn't prompt me to care. I was hoping to like the novel better.
Thanks NetGalley for the ARC.

Thanks to NetGalley and Scribner for allowing me to read this in advance. Last Acts is a father and son tale set squarely in contemporary American culture, complete with guns, opiod addiction, protests, and the foibles of capitalism. With a subject matter like that, you would think this would be a depressing read. It is not. In all its seriousness (and ultimate optimism), it is a quite funny and quick read that will leave you thinking about the subject matter long after you turn the last page.

Thanks to Netgalley and Scribner for the ebook. This is a wonderfully satiric novel about a father and son relationship in America today. Rizzo runs a gun shop in Arizona that no one visits. His son Nick has just survived a near fatal overdose. Rizzo can’t afford to send Nick to rehab, so instead he has a TV commercial made to exploit his son’s situation and promote his failing business. And that’s just the beginning of a story that’s told over several years and with an endless supply of oddball characters throughout.

Oh look, I’m the first to rate and review this book. Okay, then…
Last Acts is a very modern, uniquely American sort of novel about guns and money. A father/son story set in a sun-baked Arizona, it tells the readers of the ups and downs of Rizzo family. It begins with Nick, Rizzo son, returning from rehab, determined t stay clean, as his father clumsily navigates having an addict for a son.
The father Rizzo owns a failing gun shop in the middle of nowhere. Nick uses his marketing experience and his personal story to make the business hop, thus turning the downward slide of the Rizzos into a roller-coaster.
A strikingly competent debut as far as writing goes, but for me it misses a mark slightly. The tone varied too freely between serious drama and satire, the characters were unlikeable and not especially engaging, and the overall plot, albeit chewy didn’t really go too many places. Besides, I've seldom if ever been wowed by the Wild West as a literary destination.
Last Acts is an unquestionably timely, objectively well-written story about a country obsessed with all the wrong things. Whether the novel says as much as it could or should about it is up to the readers. Thanks Netgalley.