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damarisr's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
canadianbookworm's review against another edition
3.0
Different. It was interesting how the narrator kept changing what he called his mother, sometimes in the same sentence.
museoffire's review against another edition
5.0
Books like "Disobedience" aren't normally my cup of tea. But this melancholy coming of age story goes well beyond the usual book club fare.
The story of sweet, sad Henry Shaw and his amazingly disfunctional but incredibly compelling family is so very much worth reading. Its one of my "go to" novels and I've thumbed through it many times.
From his border line, Civil War reenacting sister who wears rebel grey everywhere they go to a passionate, very imperfect mother everyone in Henry's world is worth coming to know.
This is a quiet book. One for an evening in spring when its starting to stay light out longer and you sit on your back porch and meander slowly through the end of a boys childhood into that wretched, wonderful world we all have to enter sometime.
The story of sweet, sad Henry Shaw and his amazingly disfunctional but incredibly compelling family is so very much worth reading. Its one of my "go to" novels and I've thumbed through it many times.
From his border line, Civil War reenacting sister who wears rebel grey everywhere they go to a passionate, very imperfect mother everyone in Henry's world is worth coming to know.
This is a quiet book. One for an evening in spring when its starting to stay light out longer and you sit on your back porch and meander slowly through the end of a boys childhood into that wretched, wonderful world we all have to enter sometime.
jooniperd's review against another edition
3.0
3.5-stars, really.
the story of a young man who discovers his mother's affair. a strong look at family dynamics and the struggles of a 17yo trying to make sense of it all, while realizing his parents aren't who he thought they were. and that everyone is capable of weakness and making poor choices.
the story of a young man who discovers his mother's affair. a strong look at family dynamics and the struggles of a 17yo trying to make sense of it all, while realizing his parents aren't who he thought they were. and that everyone is capable of weakness and making poor choices.
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