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A review by jessrock
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
4.0
I didn't know anything at all about Delicious Foods when I started reading it, and I think it's a book that really benefits from going in blind, so I won't say too much about it here. The book uses a non-traditional narrator in a way that feels jarring and difficult at first, but it works well with the story and ends up not feeling gimmicky at all.
The book opens with a teenage black boy, Eddie, whose hands have recently been cut off at the wrists. He's driving a stolen car from Louisiana to Minnesota, where he believes his aunt now lives. When he finds her, he's evasive about what happened to him. He talks about needing to go back to Louisiana to rescue his mother, but he doesn't seem eager to do so. We spend a little time with Eddie in Minnesota, and then the story turns backward to a younger Eddie and explains what happened to him and to his mother.
The characters sometimes feel a little too much like caricatures, but on the whole I found Delicious Foods gripping and was glad I read it.
The book opens with a teenage black boy, Eddie, whose hands have recently been cut off at the wrists. He's driving a stolen car from Louisiana to Minnesota, where he believes his aunt now lives. When he finds her, he's evasive about what happened to him. He talks about needing to go back to Louisiana to rescue his mother, but he doesn't seem eager to do so. We spend a little time with Eddie in Minnesota, and then the story turns backward to a younger Eddie and explains what happened to him and to his mother.
The characters sometimes feel a little too much like caricatures, but on the whole I found Delicious Foods gripping and was glad I read it.