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The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
4.0

This is more than a mystery but tackles a whole lot of topics including race, poverty, small town culture and how a young person interprets all of these things. The story is told through Harry’s point of view as an 11 year old child who is the first to discover a dead a body. The characters are a great array of small town people with a lot of heartbreak and history between them.
I loved this book. It was a lot deeper and a lot more than I had expected it to be. In the best ways.