I have to admit that I really love my title. It’s so conversational, and at the same time kinda shocking. Anyway, now that I’ve complimented myself, on to the book. I think it might be more like 3.5 stars, but that’s not an option unfortunately. This book took me a while to read. Sometimes books take longer for me to read than others through no fault of their own, but due to my reading circumstances. A Kindle book is always going to go faster than […]
The grit and flavor of a Lehane novel, set in Brooklyn
This book by a young Dennis Lehane protégé socked me in the gut. It is about a small tragedy in a depressed and ramshackle corner of Brooklyn, which has reverberations that reach deep into the ethnically mixed population of Red Hook and teaches them—and us, the reader– about loss, grief, redemption and hope. It is a sultry summer night, the bars and street corners are hopping, and teen friends Valerie and June are bored and antsy. They decide to go for a midnight float […]