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Where All Light Tends to Go
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I finished the book today and Wow!, what an ending!
I was reluctant to start this book figuring that it would, like Winter's Bone, be about poverty, drug abuse, ignorance, and dysfunctional families, something that I looked forward to reading about almost as much as I do having teeth pulled. My assessment as to what the story contained was correct but what surprised me was that Jacob was a character that I could identify with and whom it was easy to root for. I really wanted him to win, and in this story, winning is escaping the aforementioned poverty, drug abuse, ignorance, and dysfunctional families.
In the other thread I said that the book made me think of Townes Van Zandt's song "" and it does. It also reminded me of "". Both beautifully represent the harsh realities of living where there is no opportunity to get ahead.
I was reluctant to start this book figuring that it would, like Winter's Bone, be about poverty, drug abuse, ignorance, and dysfunctional families, something that I looked forward to reading about almost as much as I do having teeth pulled. My assessment as to what the story contained was correct but what surprised me was that Jacob was a character that I could identify with and whom it was easy to root for. I really wanted him to win, and in this story, winning is escaping the aforementioned poverty, drug abuse, ignorance, and dysfunctional families.
In the other thread I said that the book made me think of Townes Van Zandt's song "" and it does. It also reminded me of "". Both beautifully represent the harsh realities of living where there is no opportunity to get ahead.
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Reading Progress
May 15, 2015
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Started Reading
May 15, 2015
– Shelved
May 15, 2015
– Shelved as:
southern-lit
May 15, 2015
– Shelved as:
read-in-2015
May 15, 2015
– Shelved as:
group-reads
May 18, 2015
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Finished Reading
July 27, 2015
– Shelved as:
audiobook
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Mar 08, 2017 05:14AM
Tom, I didn't buy the fact that it took him so long to escape. But I do think that this first novel shows promise and I do plan to read his novel.
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