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A review by alexcarbonneau
Where the Sun Shines Out by Kevin Catalano
4.0
Catalano might very well redefine the Grit-Lit genre and i'm still pondering if this book went too far or if I wasn't just up for it. Full disclosure, I've had a very hard time reading this book.
Not because it isn't good, nor is it poorly written. To the contrary, Catalano's debut novel is a powerful work of fiction that I believe he worked on for almost a decade before its first publication.
The prose is beautiful and poignant and Catalano's best "tour de force" might be his ability to give the reader a stomach ache and/or have him/her shut the book close for not being able to handle what might comes next while doing so without being gore, obscene or seem desperate for sensationalism.
This novel feels like a collection of short stories that are all linked togheter somehow.
It feels disorganized, or maybe more like disjointed but it all ties up and makes for the kind of novel that I've never seen before. Call me ignorant, I probably am!
I might need to read something about unicorns after this one.
Not because it isn't good, nor is it poorly written. To the contrary, Catalano's debut novel is a powerful work of fiction that I believe he worked on for almost a decade before its first publication.
The prose is beautiful and poignant and Catalano's best "tour de force" might be his ability to give the reader a stomach ache and/or have him/her shut the book close for not being able to handle what might comes next while doing so without being gore, obscene or seem desperate for sensationalism.
This novel feels like a collection of short stories that are all linked togheter somehow.
It feels disorganized, or maybe more like disjointed but it all ties up and makes for the kind of novel that I've never seen before. Call me ignorant, I probably am!
I might need to read something about unicorns after this one.