A review by wigstown
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy

3.0

Percy is a powerful writer, and this can't be the only book I read of his. The dark woods of a dark Oregon are the backdrop for all of these stories. The title story is a great fable about what happens to boys when we send their fathers off to war. They turn into the troubled, angry young men who populate Percy's other stories. I think I got a little tired of the blood, always the blood, "spilling through in a continuous stream, like blood pumped from a ragged heart" (from The Faulty Builder).