A review by thepoemreeder
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

4.0

Tobias Wolff relates the story of his life as a young boy, growing up in households away from his father and older brother. When his mother marries a man named Dwight, they move to his home, and Tobias (nicknamed "Jack") rebels in typical teenage fashion. Dwight was maniacal in his efforts to control and discipline young Jack, but in the end, Jack was able to get the best of him, moving out of his abusive home to live with neighbors before lying his way in to a private school far away from them all. Candidly honest, thanks to the interceding years that allowed Tobias to reflect on the reasons for his childhood behavior, the book breathes credibility in its fragileness, timidness, faked bravado, loneliness, and determination.