Summary:
They have one summer to find what was lost long ago.
“Never settle for less than the truth,” she told him.
But when you don’t even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it’s hard to see. It can even flourish inside a lie. And as Chase Walker discovered, learning the truth about who you are can be as elusive–and as magical–as chasing fireflies on a summer night.
A haunting story about fishing, baseball, home cooking, and other matters of life and death…
My take: 2 looks
Originally reviewed August 30, 2011
A young man works for his father at a mental institution in Tuscaloosa, AL, taking care of the grounds. He falls in love with one of the patients, his mother runs off with another woman in town to form a biracial-lesbian-Thelma-and-Louise pair, there is a woman in town whom everyone assumes he will marry, and his best friend blows up building and sets police cars on fire.
Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? Well, I have summarized the entire book in the above paragraph. It’s a weird little book, short read, with semi-clever dialogue. Speaking of dialogue, it morphs as the story progresses to sound like the narration from an episode of “My Name is Earl”.
I probably won’t read more by this author. While reading about him, I found that he made a film, short, or some such other media, in which he fought off ninjas with his genitals. Enough said.
Highly recommended.
