the hc book club, page-57

"Try - A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan.
- great book - read the reviews"

I did try this, after reading reviews that praised it highly.
Just couldn't get into it, perhaps something to do with the shifting times and situations. Can't quite remember now, but I didn't manage to finish it.

David Vann's books "Caribou Island" : "Legend of a Suicide" were extraordinary. Well written, profoundly affecting.
So I was looking forward to his latest "Goat Mountain".
It was extremely confronting: the story of a teenage boy who shoots a poacher on his family's property when hunting with his father and a family friend.
There is the horror of how they treat the body of the poacher as they would a killed animal, with all the brutality amongst themselves as well as to the dead man.

It was a step too far for me.

Thanks so much to Pictorella for so many interesting suggestions and helpful synopses.

Love this thread.