This is an unusual, beautiful novel, and I was sad to see it end. I will be 100% honest with you-it took me a page to get used to Gentry’s way of speaking, but then I found it added so much more to the story. As soon as I started reading this book, I couldn’t wait to see where she was taking them. Three words: What a book! I loved these characters in all their sweet, damaged glory. Together, like the characters in Greenwood’s last novel, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, they will change each other’s lives forever. Enter Gentry, a neurodiverse young man who thinks he is a knight-he literally speaks in Medieval English-whose voices have told him to save Zhorzha. She waits tables (and sells pot) to try and make ends meet she is in chronic pain her mother is a recluse who has filled their family home with junk her father died in prison and now there has been an abduction that hits close to home. She lives with her gullible older sister and five-year-old nephew in Kansas. Bryn Greenwood is best known for her gritty, emotionally complex stories about flawed characters finding love and connection in unlikely and often dark circumstances. Get ready to call in sick so you can devour one of the most imaginative novels of the year! Its wildly original story full of achingly real characters will have you turning the pages like you’re competing in an Olympic reading event.
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