A review by eileenthecrow
We the Animals by Justin Torres

2.0

The "twist" would have worked better if the book was longer. The book would have been better if he stopped calling the kids "half-breed" and stopped talking about their animal ways because they aren't white. The writer isn't white either so I'm thoroughly confused. One kid gets good grades and he says, "They hated me because of my white ways, my good grades." Awful. See, I understand what he is trying to do with this "animal" imagery but I don't like the way he is doing it.

It's disappointing because I thought his prose was poetic and beautiful.