![]() ![]() I also haven’t been so touched by portrayals of male friendship since–well, ever, really. I haven’t been so nauseated by descriptions of child abuse since I read Tampa and that says a lot. This book is a lot, and it deserves every content warning and tear-filled review it’s received. As it is, you understand why he’s so tormented but can’t stop hoping he’ll give it all up and accept his many possibilities for happiness. ![]() (There were times when he’d do something and I’d sigh out loud and say “Oh, Jude, why?”–and then a character in the book would echo me somewhere on the next page.) He’s a tortured, fragile character who makes terrible decisions most of the time, and were he not surrounded by such believably loving friends and family he’d be very difficult to like but much easier to pity. ![]() The book is mostly about how the hideous demons of Jude’s past keep him from fully recognizing the angels of his present. ![]() They’re a motley crew–all different races, classes and sexualities–but the main character is Jude, the shyest and most secretive of the group, tortured by an unspeakable past but determined to succeed despite it. Jude, Willem, JB and Malcolm meet during their freshman year of university, and luckily the friendship lasts a lifetime–through failures, successes, relationships, jobs, deaths and heartbreak. ![]()
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