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I wanted to like this book. After the first 30 pages I thought I really would, but when I got to page 35 and there was still no kind of distinction between the brothers I began to lose hope. The brothers stay a lump unit with no real distinction between them for at least the first half of the novel. The only characters with any real substance were the parents. Also the ending just kind of came out of nowhere, there was no real showing that the character was getting any older and then suddenly he was no longer 7! There was very little character progression up to that point and then suddenly everything is suddenly completely different. All that being said though the writing was at least pretty and some of the earlier vignettes were very poignant.
Readers seem to react strongly to this book - with strong ratings and words at both ends of the spectrum. I found it to be a fast read with a consistent, descriptive, guttural style up until the final chapter. Like other reviewers, I felt the ending came a bit abruptly and was a bit of a non sequitur. Regardless, the author pulled me in with the narrator's authentic voice and brutal, wide-eyed descriptions of growing up amidst chaos and dysfunction.
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