Black
Swan Green, David
Mitchell (4)
This book
was recommended by a publishing house contact as his favorite David Mitchell
book (who also wrote ‘Cloud Atlas’). While it is fiction, it reads like a
memoir. Each chapter is a vignette of commonplace issues of a 13-year-old boy
in a small English town. The narrator’s voice is pure and innocent as he
battles bullies, an older sister, inscrutable parents and the crazy characters
of the town. While he believes his life is unique and he is socially doomed,
the reader holds out hope that he will survive his childhood just like everyone
else does. I think that is what I liked
most about this book – while parts are painful to read, you don’t lose hope
that he has the strength and integrity to persevere and eventually thrive
(become a best selling author maybe??).
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