A review by t_d_brooking
Cry Father by Benjamin Whitmer

5.0

Cry Father is on my lifetime Top 100 novels. Ben Whitmer's story of loss and generational violence opens with rapid fire in a landscape carved from the dregs. Every one of the hardcore men and badass women who try to save them from themselves are complex and interesting. Respites come, in the form of epistolaries, just in time to catch your breath before you have to go back in for another whipping. Since I read the last word, I've pined for Ben's characters and think of them often. Part of me never wants to meet them in real life; the other part of me wants to drink a beer with them in a shitty border bar.