What I particularly like is that Kevin learns a lot in this book. I particularly liked the scene where he threw a shopping cart through that bitch lady's rear car window, then later on in the book empathized with her for, well, I don't want to give THAT much away. I like this book through Kevin's eyes, because he has a great sense of humor, he's definitely one of the guys (making a point to be "alpha" bitches), and sometimes he's just awesome when he's mad.
The fact that he's gay's just the icing on the cake, really.
I'm NOT talking the clickclick lizzzsp-faBU HUNNEH fabulous, but a pretty raw picture of a teenage boy who's troubled. This book's a cut above that, and where indeed some of the family angst is a bit too much to stomach (most of all b/c I really, really hate the dad in this book) this book's totally worth a read just because Malloy gives Kevin a fabulous voice. when it's written to appeal to a Twihard's* tweenie-weenie reading level. Risa hates this sort of shit, right? RIGHT. Says Risa: If anyone who knows me read that summary, you're probably wondering why I'm bothering to review a pile of dramarama. In the coming year, a series of painful truths and closely guarded secrets threatens to shatter the tentative bonds between father and son and wreak havoc on the lives of those nearest to them both. More disturbing, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an accident.įanning the flames of familial discontent is Kevin's aunt Nora, a belligerent aqnd fiercely religious Irish immigrant who has never liked her brother-in-law and blames him for the death of her sister. In the past two years, Kevin's relationship with his father, Patrick, has grown increasingly distant, and as lonesome women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: At the time of his wife's death, he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. A high school senior, Kevin is a marginal student obsessed with keggers, rock and roll, maintaining his place in the pecking order of high school males, and-unbeknownst to anyone else-a boy in his school with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. Summary: It's 1978 and a typical January day in Minnesota's Twin Cities-except for Kevin Doyle, whose mother died two years ago when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Upper Mississippi.
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