To sum up, if you like a great story, told very well, a great and strong central character with a lot of great supporting characters with their own quirks and personalities, and a roller coaster ride, you will love this book.
I highly recommend it. And in case you have not read my profile, I have been reading since age 3. I have read a lot of books in my time. I had a period of my life where I was ill and could not read. 14 years to be exact. This is I the 5th book I had read since I started reading again and I am so happy that, the day I went to Barnes & Noble with my list, they had nothing on my list available in softcover. And I am starting to believe, if you want to grab someone's attention, put your book cover in orange (see also Orange is the New Black, another great book that I read.).
This is a story of Harold Silver, a man who spent his life being good and decent and in the shadow of his brother George. Watching his brother George get the wife, the kids, the house, the job. Then in the blink of an eye, one murderous act changes his whole life. He is doing things he has never done, getting mixed up in things he should not be mixed up in. It is just a whole convoluted pipe he goes down and the things that happen along the way are very dark indeed. Both men are living new lives and the tables have turned in a dark way. Some would say in a darkly comic way.
This book really looks into brotherly love when it goes astray. And how much do we owe our brother. Also it looks into our other relationships and takes them apart to be put back together again. It looks at our need to be connected, no matter how dysfunctional.
And it keeps us wondering how far down do we have to go before we can rise up again and begin to pick up the pieces to put our lives back together.
It was a gripping and intensely written book that you will not want to put down. I read this in maybe two days. It is that good. I plan on reading all of A.M. Homes other books.
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