Linda S. (thk) - , reviewed on 10/5/2007 + 47 more book reviews

I was truly fascinated with this. The characters are 3-dimensional, eccentric, true to themselves. They cope with what life brings them in their own ways. In one sense, it seems to me not so much a coming-of-age story (that focuses on the main character's growth and impact on the world), as one that gradually reveals the nature of these other characters, as he matures enough to understand them better, or at least accept even without understanding. If you are familiar with the movie "Secondhand Lions", you may hear a similar chord in this one--more realistic, but still amazing in its more-localized world.

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