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genkiaussie 's review for:
Boy Swallows Universe
by Trent Dalton
I put off reading this book for a long time, afraid that it wouldn’t live up to the hype. It took me a good 40 pages to get into it and then I was hooked. The fact that this is set in the city I was born in and that the story is semi-autobiographical doesn’t hurt. This story is full of vividly drawn characters that you can’t help but care about, an emotional story set against a backdrop of drugs, violence, and hardship, and some mystical elements. I will continue to think of Eli and August for a long time to come.