Cbpax's review
Gone, Baby, Gone
by Dennis Lehane
Cbpax's review
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
Cbpax's review
rating:
recommended for: mystery fans (Some)
I do NOT recommend this book for everyone. It is raw and the language is harsh. The lifestyles involved are the underside of the city of Boston. I've done inner city ministry. I've met some of these people. They are people too. With real needs. Lehane knows these people. And this book gets to the morality of life. That's why it's an important book (and now a movie). And HARD book and movie. (My daughter, age 22, cried through the whole movie I think and had to leave at one point briefly. She is very involved with the homeless.). The language used may be hard but it is the way these people talk. And unfortuately it is the way these people live. But if Jesus were here today that's where he'd be.
