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Touch and Go
To escape an addiction, a young blind man in California steps into a station wagon with his friends and their foster kids to deliver a handmade casket to a dying grandfather in Florida. As they battle their way across the southern half of the nation, this rag-tag American family falls prey to love and lies, greed and violence, crime and Katrina.
With a voice reminiscent of John Irving, Nodine produces a classic “road-picture” novel that is part Travels with Charley, part As I Lay Dying, and part On The Road.
Touch and Go is a rich and rangy story about the careful and careless ways we treat each other—and ourselves—in a fast-paced, changing world. Kevin, the novel’s blind narrator, is one of the most perceptive figures in recent fiction. And his desire to do no harm is contagious. Through Kevin’s rich senses and boundless compassion, Nodine gives us a multicultural portrait of a true America. And he does so with deep affection for everyone along the way.
With a voice reminiscent of John Irving, Nodine produces a classic “road-picture” novel that is part Travels with Charley, part As I Lay Dying, and part On The Road.
Touch and Go is a rich and rangy story about the careful and careless ways we treat each other—and ourselves—in a fast-paced, changing world. Kevin, the novel’s blind narrator, is one of the most perceptive figures in recent fiction. And his desire to do no harm is contagious. Through Kevin’s rich senses and boundless compassion, Nodine gives us a multicultural portrait of a true America. And he does so with deep affection for everyone along the way.
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First published August 27, 2011
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Thad Nodine
2 books5 followersThad Nodine grew up in Florida and now lives in Santa Cruz. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many magazines. Touch and Go, which won the Dana Award for the Novel, is his first novel.
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December 29, 2011
I was pleasantly surprised by Nodine's debut novel Touch and Go. I love a story with a strong, first-person narrator and this novel did not disappoint. Touch and Go starts out as a road trip story, full of unlikely characters and wonderful episodes along the way, but it differs in that the narrator, Kevin, is blind. I was afraid that this would somehow limit the story, but have no fear--Nodine's descriptions are rich and detailed in a way that is new and different. Like many road trip stories, the pleasure is in the journey, not the destination. These characters are living, breathing people and I will continue to reflect upon their experiences in the days and weeks ahead. Nodine's writing style also deserves praise--I rarely use the highlight feature of my Kindle, but used it several times while reading this novel.
November 8, 2015
At times it was hard to tell where this book was going and then other times the insights aroundthis dysfunctional family were well done.. There were moments of brilliance with the sensitivity and insights about interactions between characters. But there were also moments that the characters were too stereotypical and canned, including the suprise circumstances at the end. But I did get swept up in the drama. For a first novel, it is a good start and it will be interesting where this local writer goes with his stories.
March 31, 2012
A blind man and recovering addict, his two sponsors, and a couple foster kids + a road trip to the Gulf in hurricane season with a coffin riding on top of the station wagon= chaos.
Ok, a few notes to start with. Kevin is the blind man. Isa and Patrick are his sponsors. Devon and Ray are the foster kids. Isa's father is ill, and Patrick has a hand-hewn casket for him. They load everyone in the car and bump along on the way to Florida. They are a family of sorts, but each is on shaky ground, leaving them isolated from one another.
So. I didn't love this book. I liked it. And while I'm just not feeling a snarky review for this one, I do want to talk a bit about the whys and why nots.
Why I liked it: Kevin, the blind narrator is just this sort of fantastic person who you want to pull close to your bosom area and hug deeply. He was in an accident as a child that left him blind, and then he gets into drugs and gets out of drugs and falls in love with a friend who was also on drugs, and now he's here, trying to come to terms with this person he is. He's heartbreaking and wonderful all at the same time.
Other reason I liked it: The foster kids. Ray and Devon. They are just fantastic and add to my desire to maybe possibly (don't-hold-your-breath Mom) adopt one day. Devon is tough but wants to have true affection. In fact, it's painful how much he needs to be shown that someone cares for him. Ray, on the other hand, is nothing but affection. He's fastidious and caring, compassionate and quiet.
In essence: I liked the characters, even Isa and Patrick, though they are each pretty despicable at times (though aren't we all?). I also liked the almost-allegorical journey each takes with the pretty symbolic coffin always waiting above.
What I didn't like: Some of the narration was a bit heavy handed and felt unnecessary. For example:
- It struck me that families start a lot of conversations they never quite finish. Devon asked for the bread.
- She smelled like the desert, not hot or dusty but open and robust.
- I navigate based on the supervision of surfaces.
After a while I stopped marking because sometimes I just wasn't even sure what he meant. What does "open and robust" smell like?
Then, the dialogue. That's right. I'm 'fessing up after yesterday's post. Trust me, I am not extremely nitpicky about most dialogue, so when it stands out, there is a reason, and much of this stuck out badly. One of the problems with having taught for a length of time is that I am acutely aware of how teens and young adults speak. Yes, occasionally there is one extremely vocal student with a great vocab and great insight. More often than not, I get text speak. So when I run across dialogue from a teenage girl that goes a little something like this...
"I saw them shoot a cow....They hoisted it up with straps," Alexis said. "They put a handgun right up to its head. When they shot it, I thought it was gonna be the gun that was deafening. But it's like you could hear the cow sag in those straps. It was eerie, that sound."
...I cringe a little bit. Actually, I cringed a lot and went and got my pink pen to start marking. Then this:
"You're a very strong person. You helped me figure out what I'm going to do," she said. "I'm going to quit my job. I need to make some changes."
This just sounded awkward and also came after the woman had known Kevin for about 24 hours. The scene was rushed. The dialogue was rushed. Plus, it was very stilted.
That's not to say, though, that I think Touch and Go was a bust. The end goes out with a bang as there are several twists, and the family gets caught in Hurricane Katrina. Having lived through a couple of hurricanes, I was tense, which shows how skillfully Nodine depicts the storm and its aftermath. Plus, the sheer oddness of the coffin and the drug addicts and who is lying, who is running out on the family, and the OHMYGOSH Hurricane Katrina-ness of Touch and Go was ultimately redeeming.
Read this: and be grateful you are not on drugs. That business is bad business. Also, be grateful you live somewhere not on the Gulf Coast. Unless you get tornadoes. Or earthquakes. Or locusts.
Ok, a few notes to start with. Kevin is the blind man. Isa and Patrick are his sponsors. Devon and Ray are the foster kids. Isa's father is ill, and Patrick has a hand-hewn casket for him. They load everyone in the car and bump along on the way to Florida. They are a family of sorts, but each is on shaky ground, leaving them isolated from one another.
So. I didn't love this book. I liked it. And while I'm just not feeling a snarky review for this one, I do want to talk a bit about the whys and why nots.
Why I liked it: Kevin, the blind narrator is just this sort of fantastic person who you want to pull close to your bosom area and hug deeply. He was in an accident as a child that left him blind, and then he gets into drugs and gets out of drugs and falls in love with a friend who was also on drugs, and now he's here, trying to come to terms with this person he is. He's heartbreaking and wonderful all at the same time.
Other reason I liked it: The foster kids. Ray and Devon. They are just fantastic and add to my desire to maybe possibly (don't-hold-your-breath Mom) adopt one day. Devon is tough but wants to have true affection. In fact, it's painful how much he needs to be shown that someone cares for him. Ray, on the other hand, is nothing but affection. He's fastidious and caring, compassionate and quiet.
In essence: I liked the characters, even Isa and Patrick, though they are each pretty despicable at times (though aren't we all?). I also liked the almost-allegorical journey each takes with the pretty symbolic coffin always waiting above.
What I didn't like: Some of the narration was a bit heavy handed and felt unnecessary. For example:
- It struck me that families start a lot of conversations they never quite finish. Devon asked for the bread.
- She smelled like the desert, not hot or dusty but open and robust.
- I navigate based on the supervision of surfaces.
After a while I stopped marking because sometimes I just wasn't even sure what he meant. What does "open and robust" smell like?
Then, the dialogue. That's right. I'm 'fessing up after yesterday's post. Trust me, I am not extremely nitpicky about most dialogue, so when it stands out, there is a reason, and much of this stuck out badly. One of the problems with having taught for a length of time is that I am acutely aware of how teens and young adults speak. Yes, occasionally there is one extremely vocal student with a great vocab and great insight. More often than not, I get text speak. So when I run across dialogue from a teenage girl that goes a little something like this...
"I saw them shoot a cow....They hoisted it up with straps," Alexis said. "They put a handgun right up to its head. When they shot it, I thought it was gonna be the gun that was deafening. But it's like you could hear the cow sag in those straps. It was eerie, that sound."
...I cringe a little bit. Actually, I cringed a lot and went and got my pink pen to start marking. Then this:
"You're a very strong person. You helped me figure out what I'm going to do," she said. "I'm going to quit my job. I need to make some changes."
This just sounded awkward and also came after the woman had known Kevin for about 24 hours. The scene was rushed. The dialogue was rushed. Plus, it was very stilted.
That's not to say, though, that I think Touch and Go was a bust. The end goes out with a bang as there are several twists, and the family gets caught in Hurricane Katrina. Having lived through a couple of hurricanes, I was tense, which shows how skillfully Nodine depicts the storm and its aftermath. Plus, the sheer oddness of the coffin and the drug addicts and who is lying, who is running out on the family, and the OHMYGOSH Hurricane Katrina-ness of Touch and Go was ultimately redeeming.
Read this: and be grateful you are not on drugs. That business is bad business. Also, be grateful you live somewhere not on the Gulf Coast. Unless you get tornadoes. Or earthquakes. Or locusts.
November 23, 2011
From publisher
Read 11/17/11 - 11/23/11
4 Stars - Strongly Recommended
Pgs: 342
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Be prepared to see the world through the eyes of a blind man. Touch and Go, by debut novelist Thad Nodine, is a multi-cultural, non-traditional masterpiece that will worm its way into every reader's heart.
Kevin, an ex-addict who was blinded in a freak accident as a child, narrates the journey he makes across country with his quirky sponsor family - Isa, Patrick, and their two foster kids Devon and Ray - to deliver a handmade casket to Isa's dying father in Florida. As you would expect, there is drama and conflict - Isa's attempts to mask her depression with her new relationship with God, the sneaky "get rich quick" schemes Patrick concocts from state to state that threaten to put all of them in jeopardy, and Devon and Ray, while generally on their best behavior, both have their moments. Kevin is not without his own issues as well, trying to outrun his past drug addiction and obsession with Isa while struggling to act as independently as possible in this new, foreign world he is finding himself in.
Touch and Go is more than just mere words on a page. For one thing, it's a tactile story, projecting more than just images onto the reader (which are fed to Kevin through Ray, whom he leans on for visual references of their surroundings). By using Kevin as his narrator, Nodine sets the stage for a true "3-D" experience. Kevin, who sees neither light nor dark, describes things in a way that only he can - through his sense of touch and the way he uses and catalogues sound. Those things that we take for granted every day are the very things that help him to make sense of his world.
I loved the way Kevin described the full out knees-to-chin run down the hill of a golf course during one of their many stops along the way to Florida. Unable to use sight as a guide, he lets himself go in the hopes of tricking his mind into remembering the color green, and shares the childlike joy and thrill of it all. Shortly after that experience, in a fierce display of independence, he attempts to locate a snack shop on his own in an area he has never been in before. After mistaking the sound of a garbage can on the ground as the door to the storefront, Kevin shares the sheer panic and fear that threaten to encompass him as he accepts the fact that he is lost. In another, similarly devastating moment, Kevin describes the chaos and confusion of Hurricane Katrina as it threatens to overtake the house he and his family find themselves in - the floors trembling, the window glass shaking and shrieking, the walls weeping with water. All of this, so perfectly told through the unseeing eyes of our narrator.
Touch and Go is also a story of survival, of breaking bad habits, and of becoming comfortable in one's own skin. As Kevin and the gang make the trip from Burbank to Isa's father's house, they are forced - each in their own way - to exorcise their demons. Isa learns to properly grieve for her daughter; Ray opens up and shares a private, personal, and shameful memory of his mother; Devon learns to let go of the resentful feelings he harbors for his absentee father; Patrick momentarily shows compassion for strangers during Katrina and performs a completely selfless act; and Kevin finally finds the confidence to face the world without aid of his dark glasses and cowboy hat.
A wonderfully engaging, well paced, amazing effort from a first time novelist.
Read 11/17/11 - 11/23/11
4 Stars - Strongly Recommended
Pgs: 342
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Be prepared to see the world through the eyes of a blind man. Touch and Go, by debut novelist Thad Nodine, is a multi-cultural, non-traditional masterpiece that will worm its way into every reader's heart.
Kevin, an ex-addict who was blinded in a freak accident as a child, narrates the journey he makes across country with his quirky sponsor family - Isa, Patrick, and their two foster kids Devon and Ray - to deliver a handmade casket to Isa's dying father in Florida. As you would expect, there is drama and conflict - Isa's attempts to mask her depression with her new relationship with God, the sneaky "get rich quick" schemes Patrick concocts from state to state that threaten to put all of them in jeopardy, and Devon and Ray, while generally on their best behavior, both have their moments. Kevin is not without his own issues as well, trying to outrun his past drug addiction and obsession with Isa while struggling to act as independently as possible in this new, foreign world he is finding himself in.
Touch and Go is more than just mere words on a page. For one thing, it's a tactile story, projecting more than just images onto the reader (which are fed to Kevin through Ray, whom he leans on for visual references of their surroundings). By using Kevin as his narrator, Nodine sets the stage for a true "3-D" experience. Kevin, who sees neither light nor dark, describes things in a way that only he can - through his sense of touch and the way he uses and catalogues sound. Those things that we take for granted every day are the very things that help him to make sense of his world.
I loved the way Kevin described the full out knees-to-chin run down the hill of a golf course during one of their many stops along the way to Florida. Unable to use sight as a guide, he lets himself go in the hopes of tricking his mind into remembering the color green, and shares the childlike joy and thrill of it all. Shortly after that experience, in a fierce display of independence, he attempts to locate a snack shop on his own in an area he has never been in before. After mistaking the sound of a garbage can on the ground as the door to the storefront, Kevin shares the sheer panic and fear that threaten to encompass him as he accepts the fact that he is lost. In another, similarly devastating moment, Kevin describes the chaos and confusion of Hurricane Katrina as it threatens to overtake the house he and his family find themselves in - the floors trembling, the window glass shaking and shrieking, the walls weeping with water. All of this, so perfectly told through the unseeing eyes of our narrator.
Touch and Go is also a story of survival, of breaking bad habits, and of becoming comfortable in one's own skin. As Kevin and the gang make the trip from Burbank to Isa's father's house, they are forced - each in their own way - to exorcise their demons. Isa learns to properly grieve for her daughter; Ray opens up and shares a private, personal, and shameful memory of his mother; Devon learns to let go of the resentful feelings he harbors for his absentee father; Patrick momentarily shows compassion for strangers during Katrina and performs a completely selfless act; and Kevin finally finds the confidence to face the world without aid of his dark glasses and cowboy hat.
A wonderfully engaging, well paced, amazing effort from a first time novelist.
May 25, 2013
Touch and Go was good, although it could have used a little bit more work with pacing, especially at the end. I have deep respect for an author who writes a novel in first person point of view from the perspective of a blind narrator. Nodine really set up a challenge for himself, as the narrator, Kevin, cannot see, so his form of showing and not telling comes through describing the feel of things, the sounds, the smells. While Nodine handled this very well, there were times that I felt his hypervigilance in making sure Kevin's descriptions were authentic meant that plotlines got muddled. It's a very ambitious book and worth a read.
January 29, 2012
If I taught a writing class, I would use the first chapter of "Touch And Go" as an example of a brilliant set-up, precisely what every story needs. On the weight of that first chapter, I had high hopes for the novel and yet, I didn't expect it to take me to the places it did or deliver above and beyond the promise of those first few words. A really beautiful book.
May 9, 2015
They're an interesting family. Isa and Patrick are married. They met in rehab and fell in love they also met Kevin there. He's blind, injured in a horrendous childhood accident. And there are two foster children, Devon, 16 and African American and little Ray. This family is traveling from LA to Florida to visit Isa's father. How could they not have adventures on the way?
April 19, 2012
Humor, compassion, characters that come alive and stay with you. Writing that conjures up a sense of place - creating powerful images. Genuine insights into the human condition. And a story that rolls across the country taking the reader on a wonderful ride. Helluva' fine book.
January 8, 2012
I really liked the story line but at times the book dragged and kind of lost me. But it was different from my "usual" and I enjoyed that and the characters. Some of it felt a little forced, but a good story line.
January 27, 2012
Really a good book written from the perspective of a blind man as their "family" travels from California to Florida by car. The description and narrative was really well done. I would like to think that many of you would enjoy this book.
January 6, 2013
Really random storyline but fun to read. Interesting perspective as as descriptions are from the viewpoint of a character who is blind.
September 13, 2013
It is a story that tries to cover too much: blindness, addiction, foster care, odyssey, Hurricane Katrina, love and loss, etc., etc.
October 15, 2012
Started slow, but I liked it.
August 18, 2024
Told from the perspective of an 2 years sober coke addict/blind man the same age as me (28). Living with Isa and Patrick who he met in the recovery house and their two foster kids Devon and Ray. The story follows them on a cross country trip from California to Florida to visit Isa’s dying father. Each of the characters were so real to me and the story was wonderful. Would re-read (and I don’t re-read).
March 3, 2015
This book really could have been a must-read - the type of book you'd walk away from thinking, "Wow." Unfortunately, as a first novel it feels underdeveloped and a little rough around the edges; despite its strong start, it stumbles in the end and struggles with pacing and lack of real resolution toward the end.
>Touch and Go< is, at its heart, a road-trip book about a rag-tag family going cross country to deliver a coffin to the dying father of one of the group, in a very >As I Lay Dying< sense. The group is made up of the blind narrator Kevin, husband and wife Robert and Isa, and their two foster children, Devon and Ray. The three adults are all recovering addicts who met in rehab; Isa is Kevin's official caretaker and manages the monthly settlement money he gets from his parents.
Kevin is an incredibly interesting character - partially because he narrates the story and is completely, 100% blind (he sees "nothing" as he puts it) - so the narration is focused on how he perceives the world - through sound, touch, smell. It makes for an interesting read and forces you to think non-visually. He's also interesting because of his relationship with Isa - he was apparently in love with her (unrequited) and finally decides (near the beginning) that he's "done" with her and is going to move on (since she's married). He obviously battles with truly accepting his blindness, his fears, etc.; at one point, Devon, the older of the two foster kids, criticizes him for not having "props" and not standing up for himself against Robert (in particular) who can be kind of a bully. Kevin is portrayed as a kind of meek, immature figure, who, through the course of the story, needs to grow up and learn to be his own man - in a very literal sense of the word.
What really shines about the book (other than the narrative style), in my opinion, is the relationship between Kevin and the two kids. Although Robert is technically their foster father (and-- SPOILER - turns out to be Devon's bilogical father) - it is Kevin who is the true father figure for the children. The scenes in which he interacts with Ray in particular (the younger of the two foster kids) are particularly sweet - playing games with him, putting him to bed; in some ways, it is in these scenes that Kevin is most real.
Unfortunately, while the novel starts of well enough, things start to fall apart approximately midway, and the part with Katrina feels almost forced, the pacing off, and it's not quite clear that Kevin really has his true epiphany, making the ending feel abrupt and unsatisfactory.
I also felt as if we never truly understood why/how Kevin got so deep into drugs in the same way we did the other characters. Was it just his inability to function independently? If so, that seems... a little abelist, perhaps? What happens with Isa also seems a little contrived, as if the author couldn't figure out how to resolve the ongoing conflict between her and Kevin in any other way - it almost felt like the way she was handled dis-abled Kevin's chance at transformation. He doesn't have to deal with her because the story takes care of that for him.
I wanted to see much more of Nick Hornby's >About A Boy< in the relationship between Kevin and the children - how they are the ones who teach him to grow up and take responsibility for himself and others. I feel like that is the true heart of the story and one that gets lost along the way.
Truly disappointing. I would really only recommend this book if you're writer curious in exploring how to craft a scene without using the visual element.
>Touch and Go< is, at its heart, a road-trip book about a rag-tag family going cross country to deliver a coffin to the dying father of one of the group, in a very >As I Lay Dying< sense. The group is made up of the blind narrator Kevin, husband and wife Robert and Isa, and their two foster children, Devon and Ray. The three adults are all recovering addicts who met in rehab; Isa is Kevin's official caretaker and manages the monthly settlement money he gets from his parents.
Kevin is an incredibly interesting character - partially because he narrates the story and is completely, 100% blind (he sees "nothing" as he puts it) - so the narration is focused on how he perceives the world - through sound, touch, smell. It makes for an interesting read and forces you to think non-visually. He's also interesting because of his relationship with Isa - he was apparently in love with her (unrequited) and finally decides (near the beginning) that he's "done" with her and is going to move on (since she's married). He obviously battles with truly accepting his blindness, his fears, etc.; at one point, Devon, the older of the two foster kids, criticizes him for not having "props" and not standing up for himself against Robert (in particular) who can be kind of a bully. Kevin is portrayed as a kind of meek, immature figure, who, through the course of the story, needs to grow up and learn to be his own man - in a very literal sense of the word.
What really shines about the book (other than the narrative style), in my opinion, is the relationship between Kevin and the two kids. Although Robert is technically their foster father (and-- SPOILER - turns out to be Devon's bilogical father) - it is Kevin who is the true father figure for the children. The scenes in which he interacts with Ray in particular (the younger of the two foster kids) are particularly sweet - playing games with him, putting him to bed; in some ways, it is in these scenes that Kevin is most real.
Unfortunately, while the novel starts of well enough, things start to fall apart approximately midway, and the part with Katrina feels almost forced, the pacing off, and it's not quite clear that Kevin really has his true epiphany, making the ending feel abrupt and unsatisfactory.
I also felt as if we never truly understood why/how Kevin got so deep into drugs in the same way we did the other characters. Was it just his inability to function independently? If so, that seems... a little abelist, perhaps? What happens with Isa also seems a little contrived, as if the author couldn't figure out how to resolve the ongoing conflict between her and Kevin in any other way - it almost felt like the way she was handled dis-abled Kevin's chance at transformation. He doesn't have to deal with her because the story takes care of that for him.
I wanted to see much more of Nick Hornby's >About A Boy< in the relationship between Kevin and the children - how they are the ones who teach him to grow up and take responsibility for himself and others. I feel like that is the true heart of the story and one that gets lost along the way.
Truly disappointing. I would really only recommend this book if you're writer curious in exploring how to craft a scene without using the visual element.
October 1, 2023
I liked this one as much as expected; I'd kept ot on my TBR to read after a few underwhelming titles.
Main character, Kevin, was quite well depicted, about the only quibble really is that I felt he sounded older than a twenty-something. Had a blind friend for several years, so felt the author dud a great job with capturing that aspect of Kevin's life, especially the experience of being trapped during a hurricane without a sense of sight. He's definitely the hero of the story.
Villain ... if there is one would be Patrick. However, he's more of a screw-up who can't take responsibility for his actions. His wife, Isa (long I here), tries hard to hold it together with Jesus' help, but is that enough? The foster boys round things out for a sense of 'family'.
I don't read a lot of novels, so for me to come away as a fan says a lot. Folks who do read them ought to really like this one. Highly recommended.
Main character, Kevin, was quite well depicted, about the only quibble really is that I felt he sounded older than a twenty-something. Had a blind friend for several years, so felt the author dud a great job with capturing that aspect of Kevin's life, especially the experience of being trapped during a hurricane without a sense of sight. He's definitely the hero of the story.
Villain ... if there is one would be Patrick. However, he's more of a screw-up who can't take responsibility for his actions. His wife, Isa (long I here), tries hard to hold it together with Jesus' help, but is that enough? The foster boys round things out for a sense of 'family'.
I don't read a lot of novels, so for me to come away as a fan says a lot. Folks who do read them ought to really like this one. Highly recommended.
January 28, 2012
Nodine's debut novel is about a thrown-together family of a blind ex-junkie, the married couple he met in rehab, and the couple's two foster children on a road trip from California to Florida to visit a dying father. I ended up liking this one way more than I thought I would, mostly due to the unique narration by the blind character, Kevin. Having all the other characters, flashbacks and continuing action described only through sound, touch, and smell sounds a little gimmicky, but is really effective. The climactic scene during Katrina in Biloxi is harrowing and I think more disturbing than if it had been told by a sighted character. There are a few awkward turns, but overall this is an energetic and worthwhile read.
[I got my copy free through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.]
[I got my copy free through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.]
April 23, 2013
This was a great story of an unlikely group of people in interesting circumstances. I enjoyed the twists and turns and development of the characters. I was fortunate enough to hear the author speak on a few occasions regarding his story and process which added to my experience...I hope he follows through with plans to continue with some of these characters in future novels!
July 24, 2014
I enjoyed this novel. A story that reminded me a bit of one of my favourite movies, "Little Miss Sunshine"....a bunch of offbeat characters that make up a family on a mission. I give this book 3.5 stars.
October 9, 2012
'Touch and Go' is a great book. It was easy to read and keeps your attention. It's enjoyable and helped me to see life through very different perspectives.
December 4, 2022
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