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A review by sjj169
Cry Father by Benjamin Whitmer
4.0
This type of book is quickly becoming one of my favorite "genres" to read. Dark, gritty fiction that will either make you think twice about your fellow man or stick your head in that oven. I have an electric oven so that rules that out for me. So I'm just gonna keep on reading em.
This book starts with Patterson going over to a friend's house to go fishing. When he goes to the bathroom he realizes that his good buddy Chase has his wife "hog-tied" in the bathroom. Well, she did piss him off. Patterson steps up and unties and frees said wife...and our story begins.
This book touches on fathers and sons. You have Henry-off the grid type fellow who is estranged from his son Junior. Junior is a tweaker of the degree to which I have no clue how this fucker even speaks or manages to get out of bed. He does that much cocaine and drinking.
Then you have Patterson. He lost his son to death at a early age and releases some of that grief by writing letters to his son.
Once Patterson meets up with Junior I liked him less than I thought I would. Something about that poor guy though kept me turning the pages. My copy of this book was majorly jacked up. Spaces between words and weird symbols for the "th" words. I kept reading it though because it was just that good.
Sometimes I think Henry and Brother Joe have it exactly backward. The question isn't how to live off the grid, it's how to remain tied to it. Most of what you think is your life can be ruptured in an instant. If you don't believe me, ask any prison inmate. Maybe the real question isn't how to make the world forget you, maybe it's how to make it recognize you. Even your parenthood, your right to your own children, can be stripped from you at the whim of a bureaucrat.
Drugs don't pay.
I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
This book starts with Patterson going over to a friend's house to go fishing. When he goes to the bathroom he realizes that his good buddy Chase has his wife "hog-tied" in the bathroom. Well, she did piss him off. Patterson steps up and unties and frees said wife...and our story begins.
This book touches on fathers and sons. You have Henry-off the grid type fellow who is estranged from his son Junior. Junior is a tweaker of the degree to which I have no clue how this fucker even speaks or manages to get out of bed. He does that much cocaine and drinking.
Then you have Patterson. He lost his son to death at a early age and releases some of that grief by writing letters to his son.
Once Patterson meets up with Junior I liked him less than I thought I would. Something about that poor guy though kept me turning the pages. My copy of this book was majorly jacked up. Spaces between words and weird symbols for the "th" words. I kept reading it though because it was just that good.
Sometimes I think Henry and Brother Joe have it exactly backward. The question isn't how to live off the grid, it's how to remain tied to it. Most of what you think is your life can be ruptured in an instant. If you don't believe me, ask any prison inmate. Maybe the real question isn't how to make the world forget you, maybe it's how to make it recognize you. Even your parenthood, your right to your own children, can be stripped from you at the whim of a bureaucrat.
Drugs don't pay.
I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.