A review by nojsonofthan
Sink: A Memoir by Joseph Earl Thomas

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

Incredibly moving, if somewhat scattershot memoir of growing up in a situation so traumatizing and dark that it shocks the conscience.  The connective tissue of fantasy and video games, sustaining and warping the author's self as he grows up is novel and memorable.  And when it's grim, it's insanely grim.  Much like life, though, there's an inconsistency in tone that keeps the theme from really coming together: describing an actual life, even through a lens wielded by an author as skilled as Thomas, is going to have an intermittency - there are downs that surprise you but there are also ups that, perhaps unintentionally, blunt the downs in ways that made them less effective to me.
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