A review by amdame1
Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez

3.0

Juan is an excellent basketball player but he's struggling in school. Then he hurts his ankle really badly when he and his friend JD are running away from the cops at a party. His life just seems to get worse and worse, and there does not seem to be any way out. His friend JD is facing similar trials with dead ends and seemingly no where to turn.

This is a pretty bleak, but sadly realistic, I suppose, look at the lives of brown boys in El Paso, TX. It's a debut novel - and reads like one. This author has promise and I hope he keeps writing. #WNDB

There were typographical errors throughout, but I had an ARC so that was to be expected.