Delicious Foods

From its wild-eyed open with a young Eddie driving a stolen Subaru, blood soaked towels where his hands should be, to Hannaham's choice to have crack cocaine narrate much of the book, this book subverts expectation. We're in the midst of a “how-dunnit” as we go back years to meet Eddie's mother turning tricks and looking for her next hit and then years earlier to her in college on a path to build a life with the man who will become her husband.

You can imbue the story with a host of themes — as allegory or expose but it's still at its heart a fantastically compelling read.