Wednesday, June 6, 2012

We the animals

We the animals by Justin Torres 128 pgs.

A short little novel with amazing impact.  Three brothers are living like boys do with their young parents in an unstable relationship.  There are times of hunger and pain but mostly a lot of boy stories.  The family is poor and yet very loving and seem close...but the youngest son doesn't quite fit in.  The family as a whole has each other but they don't seem to fit in with many others so when you are the one that doesn't quite fit, you can end up being very lonely.  I don't want to write too much about this book.  I loved it but don't want to spoil the experience for anyone else.  Kudos to Mr. Torres.

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1 comment:

  1. This is a beautiful book about some terrible and wonderful things. The raw emotion fills every page, just daring the reader to keep going, to keep absorbing the intensity.

    This is a book that is hard to shake and impossible to forget.
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