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Some Things That Meant The World To Me (2009)

by Joshua Mohr(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0982015119 (ISBN13: 9780982015117)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Two Dollar Radio

review 1: This is a beautiful book with a really sweet heart. For all the nastiness roiling in the novel's outside world--alcoholism, violence, domestic abuse--there is something so endearing about the narrator, Rhonda. She is actually a he, who keeps the nickname given to him by an abusive stepfather (figure), well later in to life, as he tries to pick up the pieces and mend what's been broken. Rhonda is delicate but not weak, and we can't help but root for him. Most of the narrative takes place around San Francisco's Mission District, a place I know well, and Mohr gets every detail right. There is no city on earth like San Francisco. Normally the words "magic realism" scare me away from a book. I've heard this novel described that way, but to me a work this powerful transcends la... morebels. I don't know what genre this falls into. I only know that Joshua Mohr is a helluva writer, and this book moved me in ways few do.
review 2: I completely devoured this book over night and am still playing with the images in my mind as I close the book. The last few books I have read left me with the disappointing taste of empty satisfaction and this novel was the breath of gritty air that I needed to restore my faith in the "new" literary world. The journey of Rhonda and his inner child's seemingly real manifestation was all together dark, forward and cultivating of the kind of horrors that can reside in one's past. I loved Mohr's style as well as his ever hilarious list of "apologies" at the end of the novel as opposed to acknowledgments or thanks. I won't say what it reminded me of, style or content wise, but I will say that it was the kind of story I had been looking for and will be thankful for the day I randomly discovered this book while I hungrily begin "Damascus" (also by Mohr). less

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