A review by yy_reads
The Guncle by Steven Rowley

emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

I was expecting this book to be very lighthearted from the title, the cover, and the blurb, but instead I got a lovely, poignant story that made me cry several times. 

Probably my favorite quote (p.

238

hardcover edition): 

So many nights Patrick had looked up at the desert night sky trying to find meaning, trying to locate himself. He would always come back to the same thing: stargazing was time travelling. He'd looked it all up, read every book in the library. We see the sun as it was 8.3 minutes ago. Alpha Centauri - the next closest star - was 4.3 light-years away. When he looked at Alpha Centauri, he saw light that was generated when Joe was still alive. He even remembered the time, 4.3 years and a day after that fateful night, when he looked up at the sky to see the first light generated after Joe had died; he wept like a child.