by Joe Meno
Joe Meno is an amazing author. You can tell a lot about how good an author is by reading his or her first book and Tender As Hellfire has all the elements of a well written story that will keep you intrigued from start to finish. Dough is the narrator. You see the events unfold through his eyes a...
This debut novel also has a too neat ending (see review for _The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman_), but its clever, multivalent, simultaneously denotative and connotative title saves it from 3 stars.