"A sympathetic look at a pair of murderers."
Homo Superiors got another review (and a good one, from Kirkus), check it out:
"It was a wise move on the author’s part to end her novel just at the moment when no amount of work could make readers feel sympathy toward poor, misguided Noah. As it stands, however, she’s acquitted herself as a modern-day Clarence Darrow, creating as compelling a brief for the defense as Noah Kaplan (or Nathan Leopold) could possibly hope to have. She writes so arrestingly of thwarted desire and social awkwardness that readers may briefly believe themselves to be inside Noah’s own skin. Overall, it’s a thoroughly unsettling book."
It's so good I read it aloud to my sister over the phone, and when she said she had to go I was like, "No problem, I've got this review to re-read all night," and she said, "Yeah, I know, I've met you. You're not just going to read it once and be like, 'That was nice!' Of course you're going to memorize it." YAY.
"It was a wise move on the author’s part to end her novel just at the moment when no amount of work could make readers feel sympathy toward poor, misguided Noah. As it stands, however, she’s acquitted herself as a modern-day Clarence Darrow, creating as compelling a brief for the defense as Noah Kaplan (or Nathan Leopold) could possibly hope to have. She writes so arrestingly of thwarted desire and social awkwardness that readers may briefly believe themselves to be inside Noah’s own skin. Overall, it’s a thoroughly unsettling book."
It's so good I read it aloud to my sister over the phone, and when she said she had to go I was like, "No problem, I've got this review to re-read all night," and she said, "Yeah, I know, I've met you. You're not just going to read it once and be like, 'That was nice!' Of course you're going to memorize it." YAY.
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