From the Bookshelf of 2015 Reading Challenge [Closed]…

[close] In 1948 Time and The New York Times gave Truman Capote's first published novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, bad reviews. As with everything I've read by Capote, I really loved it. I was totally immersed in the atmosphere of this Southern Gothic, coming-of-age story from the very first paragraph. Beautiful prose, vivid characterization, compelling voice. Many elements of the genre present, including innocence trumped by desperation, broken bodies and broken souls, stranger in a strange place, imprisonment, isolation, the macabre, and the grotesque. [For the 2015 Reading Challenge, it also fits these categories: a book written by someone under 30, a popular author's first book.]