This book is referred to reviewers as
a “coming-of-age” book and is written from the point of view of Jon Mosher as
he looks back over several decades. In high school he befriends Ray
Cappicciano, a loner and a rebel. The both fall for Karen Dorsey, but
their friendship remains strong, even after Karen’s choice between the two of
them is made.
There is a lot of unhappiness in Jon’s
and Ray’s lives. Jon feels partly responsible for the accident that took his
older brother’s life when he was a young child. The sadness and anger his
mother harbors through all the years following that incident are almost
unbearable.
Ray’s mother left his father when he
was a young child. His stepmother left after the birth of his
stepbrother, Gene. Ray feels responsibility for Gene’s safety and well
being, a heavy burden for a teenager with problems of his own.
There is so much foreshadowing in this
book that you pretty much know from the get-go what is going to happen, just
not when it will happen or by whose hand.
I enjoyed the writing but some
passages were tedious. I would recommend this and I think it would be a
good book club book.
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