It was more about good things people do for others - or do for the principle of the thing. At the end I cried, but it wasn’t a depressing cry. I smiled and enjoyed so many things during this book. I thought she was going to say something negative. The store lady looks at it and says “Coming along.” She meant his handwriting was improving. Little boy signs the account book at the store for something he is buying. Here’s an example: A poor family buys groceries on credit. I consider John Grisham the king of character development, and this book is full of it.
Luke feels lucky when he compares his life to sharecroppers who have no screens, no fan, and no electricity to listen to the baseball games on the radio. Luke finds joy in daydreams about baseball and getting a St. He doesn’t want to keep secrets but he has to. He is always sneaking around and listening to things and seeing things he’s not supposed to. And I can’t imagine this story done any other way. But this book reminds me how great 1st person can be. I am biased against 1st person point-of-view (thanks to the New Adult genre). I would have given this book six stars if they had let me. There is a lot of detail and emotional measure to it, and the perspective will, if you allow yourself to give the empathy that the narrative character deserves, leave you convinced that you've just put down a classic when you are done. This book is best read on a rainy day, preferably on your covered front porch or deck, with a nice hot cup of tea or coffee to keep you company.
It establishes the author as an author in the literal sense, rather than a writer in a limited area. While it is not a part of what we have come to anticipate from the author, this book is not only an enjoyable tale in its own right, but the equal to and I honestly believe perhaps even better than what came before it.
However I believe that it is fair to say that this book represents his break-out effort, as he has completely departed from the well-known and comfortable style of his other work and charted new territory here. This book caught me by surprise - I am I think like most people, in that I have a habit of classifying authors by the themes they write on, and of course this author made that very easy with his previous body of work, which as we all know is the result of his being a part of that profession.
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