I loved "Becoming Abigail" by Chris Abani, so I went out and got "Graceland" only to be disappointed. While the poetic prose that made Abigail so good are still sprinkled in, the story is just "blah". You never get make a connection with the main character, Elvis. The attempts made at going back and forth between his youth and adulthood are extremely difficult to follow, and the story just lacks a solid purpose with which to hold the reader's interest.
I so wanted this book to be awesome, but I found myself bored with it. Usually when I have free time, reading is my go to activity, but while this was the book I was reading, I avoided it like a teenager does homework.
I so wanted this book to be awesome, but I found myself bored with it. Usually when I have free time, reading is my go to activity, but while this was the book I was reading, I avoided it like a teenager does homework.
