Sam Moore
Dynamic and transformative in a way that surprised me. The San Quentin section all superb; feelings that can't be given a name but that end up haunting much of the novel, especially its final part -- a novel that constantly grapples with how to define Freedom and what people do when they don't have it. A stark, lonely thing, a generation of people who never had Opportunity in the way that their parents (so often absent, dead) did; the world itself seemingly haunted by what came before and what never quite came after. Violence the only language these people know; the way things calcify and take root. Very good
Dynamic and transformative in a way that surprised me. The San Quentin section all superb; feelings that can't be given a name but that end up haunting much of the novel, especially its final part -- a novel that constantly grapples with how to define Freedom and what people do when they don't have it. A stark, lonely thing, a generation of people who never had Opportunity in the way that their parents (so often absent, dead) did; the world itself seemingly haunted by what came before and what never quite came after. Violence the only language these people know; the way things calcify and take root. Very good