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Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
[b:In Cold Blood|168642|In Cold Blood|Truman Capote|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1365125582s/168642.jpg|1940709] was a life-changer for me. It made me realize that non-fiction could be suspenseful, multi-dimensional, literary. This, too, is all those things.
A 13-y/o boy discovers that the father who abandoned him is still alive. He travels to meet his father and stays in his father's home (part of which burned to the ground years before) along with a unlikely cast of characters. Some of the house's inhabitants may even be ghosts. The boy also befriends a pair of female twins who provide him with entertainment and danger and distract him from the fact that his father has yet to appear.
I love books that screw with my mind. Unreliable narrators are great, but genuinely confused narrators can be even better. I'm going to have to reread this to get the depth of it. My brain got a good workout trying to separate dream from reality and put together some kind of chronological, logical narrative about what this kid was "really" going through.
This is the best book I've read so far in 2014 (lol), and it's one I need to revisit.
A 13-y/o boy discovers that the father who abandoned him is still alive. He travels to meet his father and stays in his father's home (part of which burned to the ground years before) along with a unlikely cast of characters. Some of the house's inhabitants may even be ghosts. The boy also befriends a pair of female twins who provide him with entertainment and danger and distract him from the fact that his father has yet to appear.
I love books that screw with my mind. Unreliable narrators are great, but genuinely confused narrators can be even better. I'm going to have to reread this to get the depth of it. My brain got a good workout trying to separate dream from reality and put together some kind of chronological, logical narrative about what this kid was "really" going through.
This is the best book I've read so far in 2014 (lol), and it's one I need to revisit.