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claire_fuller_writer 's review for:
The Night Always Comes
by Willy Vlautin
Willy Vlautin has a wonderfully fresh and naive style which does take a bit of getting used to. While The Night Always Comes follows a conventional chronological structure, he makes some unusual narrative decisions, and for a while I battled against those, until I came to accept them and just enjoy the ride.
First, the story: which in some ways, albeit a different continent and different issues, has an uncanny resemblance to Unsettled Ground. (Willy and I did an online event together around this subject.) Lynette lives with her mother and developmentally disabled brother, Kenny. She struggles to make enough money, saving up so they can buy the house they all live in together. She's made some bad choices in the past and she makes some bad choices in the two days and two nights that the book is set over.
The odd narrative decisions are when back story is told through the dialogue between two characters who already know the back story, or when one character talks for a very long time about what they're thinking, or when Lynette does things - brilliantly described (I love the details around objects especially) - but without any indication of what she's thinking or feeling. So all that was odd, but clearly deliberate.
Still, highly recommended.
First, the story: which in some ways, albeit a different continent and different issues, has an uncanny resemblance to Unsettled Ground. (Willy and I did an online event together around this subject.) Lynette lives with her mother and developmentally disabled brother, Kenny. She struggles to make enough money, saving up so they can buy the house they all live in together. She's made some bad choices in the past and she makes some bad choices in the two days and two nights that the book is set over.
The odd narrative decisions are when back story is told through the dialogue between two characters who already know the back story, or when one character talks for a very long time about what they're thinking, or when Lynette does things - brilliantly described (I love the details around objects especially) - but without any indication of what she's thinking or feeling. So all that was odd, but clearly deliberate.
Still, highly recommended.