A review by howifeelaboutbooks
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

5.0

This book was amazing. Allison has a way of setting the scene so clearly you can feel the hot Southern air heavy on your face and feel the gritty dirt between your teeth. Her language is gorgeous yet very sparse; she writes without many adjectives and adverbs but paints a picture more vivid than many books I've read. Best of all, nothing about this book was typical. I kept thinking I knew what was coming next, but it never happened that way. I took a long time to finish it, simply because I didn't want the story to end. Absolutely fantastic.