Read: Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th October.
Review: The only book this really reminded me of was Lord of the Flies. It's that kind of book. It deals with deep, dark, tormented childhood and adolescence, and the complete inability of some adults to understand that. It's hard to review this book because it deals with something so completely beyond my experience: two very different boys, growing up in parallel situations, one motherless, one fatherless, and both lacking anybody to love and understand them. When they are thrown together, completely against their will, and obliged to live in the same house, the tension and cruelty is unbearable. It's a bleak book! And I'm scared to admit that it may be an accurate portrayal of some people's childhoods.
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