It was an ok book even though I pretty much despised all the characters and just really wanted to beat the dickens out of them all. The Parker Family is quite the unhappy bunch. You have the parents..The father is a pretty decent guy and probably would be perfect if he could keep his head out o...
If you care about fiction, run away from this book. I don't think I've ever read stories so afraid of themselves, so many safe ideas written up in safe, secondhand language. It's the kind of enervating book that made me think, halfway through, that my memory of fiction must be false, that maybe i...
They had just begun the long trip from California to Montana, where they would visit his grandparents for Thanksgiving, and Jeannie was weaving their blue Impala in and out of traffic, accelerating until the air beat against the car. Benny fastened his seat belt and looked at the faces of the oth...