Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Scribner, 2018
Pages: 192
Rating: Do Not Recommend
Synopsis: The three of them - a twelve-year-old boy, his older brother, their father - have won the war: the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque, eager to begin again, united by the thriller possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school, join basketball teams, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps - the dead-eyed absentmindedness, the late night noises, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters - become worrisome, and the boys find themselves watching their father change, grow erratic, then dangerous.
Review: This novel had potential, and I've read other dark, disturbing novels and liked them, difficult though it was. However, there was a disconnect in this novel. The characters aren't named, the motivations not always understood, and the epilogue adds nothing to the story. Disappointing.
At least it's a short novel so it wasn't a huge time commitment.
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