Another lucky find while looking over the shelves in the fiction room at Robbins. Henley is a poet and writes like one. You have to get used to the style, no quotation marks during conversation, short unconnected statements but once I did I was gripped by the story, the characters the imagery. It's really a story about the secrets we all keep to try and protect those we love. The setting is in the midwest with flashbacks to Vietnam. There is an underlying story about gay relationships and community intolerance also a theme of meditation and religion. A fantastic book and refreshing to read such an original style of writing.

I was never gripped by the characters, never enticed to keep reading and reading by the plot. Still, the language was at times lyrical enough to make me smile at a passage here and there. But generally, not a terribly memorable story.

Couldn't finish it. I read about 60 pages, but it still hadn't grabbed my attention and I gave up.