New Millennium Boyz

By Alex Kazemi

The debut novel hailed by Bret Easton Ellis as a “toxic teenage boy anthem,” that shook up the indie lit scene and landed on conservative book ban lists and controversial celebrity bookshelves, finally arrives in paperback.

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“This book is raunchy, raucous, and sure to offend.” —Ellen Hopkins

Brad Sela’s slow suburban life takes a whirlwind turn when two new transfer students, Lu, a Marilyn Manson fan with an unpredictable evil side, and Shane, a depressed stoner, shake up his Y2K senior year.

As Brad dives deeper into the boys’ twisted world, he embarks on a dangerous journey, indulging his darkest impulses as he and his new friends document their most disturbing exploits on Handycams. As the boys’ antics spiral out of control, Brad’s double life edges toward exposure, pulling him further into self-destruction and chaos.

As deviant as it is defiant, this dark and satirical takedown of the extreme teen genre presents a documentarian’s portrait of the late 1990s, where traditional masculinity, the early internet, and pop culture collided. Provocative and alarming, Kazemi’s work critiques contemporary upper-class American life, crossing all lines as the book seduces, shocks, breaks your heart, and leaves you laughing—albeit sadistically. New Millennium Boyz presents an uncensored and unsettling portrayal of the year 2000 that never could have aired on MTV.

“Kazemi’s prose produces the same visceral response as an early Tarantino movie. Proceed with caution.” —Douglas Rushkoff

“In New Millennium Boyz, Alex Kazemi dissects the post-Columbine generation with wit and a sharp scalpel. His characters are damaged products of their time. While this is a dark chronicle, there's also a cozy High School Confidential feel to the tale and the various media Kazemi employs to tell it, resulting in a compulsively readable novel.” —Poppy Z. Brite

“New Millennium Boyz reads like a script for an American high school classic… Kazemi… writes with such vivid candour that you can practically smell the fresh paint coming off the white picket fences of the wide suburban streets, Stars and Stripes waving in the breeze and the engines of Jeep convertibles revving into high school car parks.” —The Face

“Millennial boyhood was way more messed up than we’d like to remember. Alex Kazemi’s debut novel won’t let us forget. Against the backdrop of our current Y2K nostalgia overload and the creeping manosphere discourse, New Millennium Boyz connects the dots back to the Columbine generation.” —Vanity Fair