Alpha

***Please note that this title contains strong language and offensive material***

"A.D. Aliwat's book can sometimes make you uncomfortable (but that's okay, that means it's working) and is an interesting perspective on modern manhood in America. A must read." 5-Star Amazon Review

"What strange fun Alpha is. It reads like a meditation on the very nature of hatred, with hard-edged prose that pushes and pulls. It's tough, lyrical, and completely relentless.

In A.D. Aliwat's literary debut Alpha, twenty-five-year-old investment banker Frank Parker explicitly recounts his power hungry and sex crazed youth, rendering something of a "Portrait of the Asshole as a Young Man."

Frank learns the term “alpha male” at age nine. After breaking from his kind but ineffective single mother’s influence, he spends his adolescence picking fights, mistreating girls, and doing whatever else he can to gain status over his peers. He becomes his own parent, abusing himself when encountered with even the slightest of failures on his quest for success. Frank's journey begins with dreams of playing in the NFL, takes him through the Seattle music scene during college years otherwise spent in an elite fraternity, and ends where the novel begins, on Wall Street, with episodes relating back to banking principles throughout.

Alpha is an outrageous satirical take on coming-of-age, patriarchy, and American exceptionalism. In primal and lyrical prose, Aliwat offers a mesmerizing look inside the mind of a predator as pitiable as he is terrifying. This is an examination of how the monsters of the modern banking system are made, and why they flourish in America.

About the Author:
A.D. Aliwat was born in the United States of America in 1985.