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A review by bookguyeric
The Unmade World by Steve Yarbrough
4.0
I've now read two novels by Yarbrough, and if I can characterize him based on those two, I'd say he writes about characters who have experienced great loss and must go through the motions of life until, by the grace of the Universe, another reason to live materializes.
Richard Brennan, an investigative journalist, loses his wife and daughter in an auto accident. Bogdan Baranowski loses his business, and later, his sense of self, as he descends into a life of crime. Their stories are intertwined. They must work through their loss/guilt, and find their own reasons to carry on. If they should ever meet, the results may be explosive.
At the end of the day, we seem sometimes to wander aimlessly through this world. But if we're lucky, we discover those mercies that make life seem like more than an empty exercise.
Richard Brennan, an investigative journalist, loses his wife and daughter in an auto accident. Bogdan Baranowski loses his business, and later, his sense of self, as he descends into a life of crime. Their stories are intertwined. They must work through their loss/guilt, and find their own reasons to carry on. If they should ever meet, the results may be explosive.
At the end of the day, we seem sometimes to wander aimlessly through this world. But if we're lucky, we discover those mercies that make life seem like more than an empty exercise.