A couple brothers with just a depressing life. So many bad decisions and an almost stubbornness to change or accept that their lives need to change. Mom basically raised them as a single mother after dad gambled away his life & going to jail never to be seen again. Mom dies of cancer when both in high school, older one quits right away & gets crappy job and younger sticks with school little longer but still quits when near graduating. People around them are all struggling and fighting demons, just a real depressing kind of book. I didn't even mention that the older brother was drunk & kills a kid on a bike as a hit & run. Questions about why kid out at midnight or whatever it was, wearing black & jumping out into street--fault not all with brother but kid still dead. Doesn't leave body & get help, instead puts into car and finds brother and then eventually leave body near hospital and they take off for a while. Just crazy bad decisions to start book and continue whole way through.
All this being said, I really like this author, he has the ability to bring these characters alive. You really feel the struggles and torment the people are feeling and how it seems they are trapped in this just tough life they have. There is just a glimmer that maybe they could fight to rise to a reasonable maybe lower middle class existence but you as the reader know it is not likely. One of those books or stories where, well you thought your life was bad kind of thing.
Even though I really like the book & author, it is not a keeper. I have already posted it on PBS, there is 1 WL for it & maybe it will get accepted & I can mail off this weekend. If not I guess it will go on my bookshelf but figure it will get requested before too long, this is just too good of writer not to.
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