Another book that I wanted to love so much, but after finishing it I can only muster a "meh". It held my attention, but the absurd amount of violence details and 'edgy' satire (note to author ~ jokes about sexual abuse? Not really edgy...more like really, really desperate, regressive and beyond...
Have you ever had one moment, one fleeting moment when you thought ‘I wonder if I’m adopted?’ Maybe some of you have had more than one of these ruminations, or maybe some of you have been adopted and wonder what your biological parents could do for you that your adopted ones have failed to or…. M...
I’m not gonna lie to you—there’s a whole lot of skeevy business going on in this book. A lot of skeevy business that amounts to plenty of reasons and excuses not to read it, but they all revolve around the subject matter. WARNING: If anything around pedophilia is a hard ‘No’ as far as reading mat...
Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this extraordinary collection of short stories established A. M. Homes as one of the most provocative and daring writers of her generation. Here you'll find the cult classic A Real Doll, the tale of a teenage boy's erotic obsession with his sister's fav...
Reconozco que probablemente leer los cuentos de A.M. Homes después de haber leído los de Amy Hempel es un poco injusto, porque las comparaciones pueden ser odiosas y crueles. Aún así, cuando en una colección de cuentos no hay ninguno que me produzca auténtica envidia ni ninguno que hubiera desead...
It was my fifth summer at my father’s house, six years after my parents divorced, three years after my mother remarried, the summer of ’79, the summer I was twelve, the summer the world almost stopped spinning round. Henry’s mother picked me up at the airport. “Hello! Hello!” she called from the ...