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Our soon-to-be orphaned narrator’s mother is a substance-abusing teenage single mom who checks out via OD on his 11th birthday, and Demon’s cynical, wised-up voice is light-years removed from David Copperfield’s earnest tone.
At the priest’s directive, father and son were ultimately divided again, and the entire experience left Lito scarred. Instead we get a whole book of Eleanor’s avoidance behaviors with no hope for improvement, and reading it was a bleak and unenjoyable experience.It’s understandable that a teen would lie to gain her parents approval but why is Eleanor behaving the same way at 25 years old?
The story resides at the muddled intersection of grief, disillusionment, and complacency with surprising clarity. With multiple POVs, I also felt detached to the characters and I had expected some characters to be deepened.The narration is intimate, poignant, it's almost like reading someone's deepest thoughts: truly beautiful.