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And This Is True (2010)

by Emily Mackie(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0340992506 (ISBN13: 9780340992500)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Sceptre

review 1: As a piece of social realism, it's completely implausible that any fifteen year old boy, much less one that has lived in a van with his depressed father for 11 years, has the kind of insight, knowledge and sensitivity that the narrator of this novel displays, but then it turns out that the "voice" of the novel is actually more like a grown up and very well educated person (someone who's name perhaps begins with an E and an M?)and that we're being entertained along the roads and byways of literary theory, psychology, philosophy and so on. It's very well done all in all, all be it somewhat over-intellectualized.
review 2: So. I really don't know what to think. Halfway through it, I had no idea where it was going. Now that I'm finished, I'm still unsure. This is a... more book about love, but not the kind of love you'd think. This a book about being different, being lonely. And mostly, this is a book about finding out who you are. So, this could be nice. I mean, I like those kind of books. But it made me ill at ease at some points, and it reminded me way too much of The God of Small Things by Arundathi Roy. I have no idea if Mackie got inspiration from it, and it might be just a coincidence, but I find it really weird. Also, though I liked the fragmented narrative and some of Nevis's character, both of them also irritated me a lot. More, I feel like in this story, telling us about a really short period of time, about 3 or 4 weeks I think, nothing happens. It left me unsatisfied. less

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