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A review by pgchuis
Orient by Christopher Bollen
5.0
Mills Chevern hitchhikes to New York, gets into trouble, and is rescued by his neighbour, Paul, who asks him to go to Orient with him and help him clear out his family/weekend home. Orient is near Plum Island, a secure government animal research facility and a strange hybrid animal corpse is washed ashore. Then people start dying and Mills is made the scapegoat.
This book is perhaps overlong, and either I need to think about it more, or the plot is a bit dodgy in places, but it is beautifully written and characterized. No one is particularly happy or particularly nice to their friends/neighbours, but Bollen manages to describe many many characters in a way that makes them seem real and clearly differentiated from one another. (A special mention of Eleanor here!) My knowledge of the geography of the state of NY has also increased enormously.
This book is perhaps overlong, and either I need to think about it more, or the plot is a bit dodgy in places, but it is beautifully written and characterized. No one is particularly happy or particularly nice to their friends/neighbours, but Bollen manages to describe many many characters in a way that makes them seem real and clearly differentiated from one another. (A special mention of Eleanor here!) My knowledge of the geography of the state of NY has also increased enormously.