by Scott Heim
Cinematic writing, great characterisation, quietly horrifying and viscerally uncomfortable. Reading this felt like tasting blood.
This is a very sharp-edged multiple coming of age novel. No Tom Sawyers here. Brian Lackey (and can’t you tell what sort of person he is by his name?) wakes up in the crawlspace under his home one midnight when he is 8 years old, bloody, with no knowledge of what had happened to the last five hour...
I think I rate this lower than it probably deserves just because it was so disturbing. The thing that bothers me the most is that Neil is presented as if he WANTED the coach to molest him. But maybe his memories are just as skewed as Brian's are. Whereas one has convinced himself he was abducted ...
Now this is an interesting book. Two boys seduced/molested by their little league coach and how it affects them over the next fifteen years. It was an amazing story that had a very successful ending. The characters are very interesting and the writing style was yummy.
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