The Outcast by Sadie Jones"It had started like any other Sunday. Like any other desperate, hate-filled, pointless Sunday in the stream of Sundays as long as he could remember. Everybody was out, everybody playing their parts in a play he didn't understand and didn't want any part of. There had been nothing to indicate how the day would end" (167).
It is 1957 in the South of England and 19-year old Lewis Aldridge is coming home from prison after two years. The reader is unsure of exactly why Lewis was in prison, and the novel returns to his boyhood to explain the events leading up to his arrest, which includes one disastrous event that changes the course of his life forever.
This book started out somewhat slow, and then became such a page turner I had to stay up all night to finish it. I think my anger at the adult characters in the book propelled me forward. First, Lewis' own father and his unwillingness to help Lewis through his grief as a child, then Lewis' stepmother who has a host of her own issues that precede helping her stepson, then the Carmichaels who I just loathed entirely.
This was the book I had been waiting to read this summer, and it definately delivered.
No comments:
Post a Comment