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Aug 17, 2017wyenotgo rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Working my way through this mess was almost a nightmare. While I wouldn't ordinarily write a review is such a manner, I see no way to respond to this book other than in the same language as the book itself. Simply put, this is about people who have dug themselves into a hole and are still busy digging. Vermette has chosen, presumably for the sake of realism, to present her characters as, in their own sad vernacular, totally fucked-up and busy becoming more fucked-up. There is some attempt at social commentary: an exploration of racial tensions; of jaded police who have long since given up on a populace that sees them as the enemy; of the injustice of women abandoned by men who cannot stomach family responsibility and a society and set of laws that fails to compel them to man up. But it's all just depressing. In the end, I really didn't care what happened to any of these people.