sydney's review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))
by Dave Eggers
sydney's review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (The Best American Series (TM)) by Dave Eggers
sydney's review
rating:
I always love these books, so it seems fairly pointless to review them. Favorites here: "We Have a Pope!" (about a failed PR campaign to appoint an American pope), "What You Eat" (about a boy whose father makes him eat anything he kills-- less gross and more poignant than it sounds), "Hidden Lives of Lakes" (about a town where the dead go to live underneath the ice in a frozen-over lake), "Sixteen Jackies" (Jackie Kennedy splits into 16 different Jackies after JFK's death, and each lives her own separate life), and "Big Brother" (!! such a good story! About what happens when a single mom's son gets a Big Brother. Mostly I loved this story because the narrator's voice is hilarious and spot-on).
