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A review by steve_sanders
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
5.0
Tinti’s brilliantly weaves the main narrative mystery—the origins of Hawley’s 12 scars—with her larger thematic ones as Loo explores the unsolvable mystery at the heart of every parent/child relationship.
Admittedly there were times when I wished it had been ten or eleven lives, but Tinti’s eye for detail and place (she beautifully evokes at least a dozen distinct US settings) are so good that I could overlook occasional lapses in pacing.
Admittedly there were times when I wished it had been ten or eleven lives, but Tinti’s eye for detail and place (she beautifully evokes at least a dozen distinct US settings) are so good that I could overlook occasional lapses in pacing.