Book Review #13
Brewster
by Mark Slouka
"Where do you go? When you're seventeen? When there's nowhere to go?" This is an absolutely terrific book. It's like listening to a jazz record. At times the writing is elliptical and yet it cuts right to the bone. It is a very honest, moving and authentic coming-of-age tale. The feelings of suffocation in a dead-end town, the anticipation of sex and the threat of violence all ring true. As I read and reread the final paragraphs, I cried my eyes out. Slouka is a helluva writer.
by Mark Slouka
"Where do you go? When you're seventeen? When there's nowhere to go?" This is an absolutely terrific book. It's like listening to a jazz record. At times the writing is elliptical and yet it cuts right to the bone. It is a very honest, moving and authentic coming-of-age tale. The feelings of suffocation in a dead-end town, the anticipation of sex and the threat of violence all ring true. As I read and reread the final paragraphs, I cried my eyes out. Slouka is a helluva writer.
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