Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I stopped reading after the 7 year old gets assaulted and sexually abused. If repetitive descriptions of poverty, abuse and addiction are your thing, this is for you. Of course the Booker Prize panel loved it. And the National Book Award panel, as well... the winner last year was Susan Choi’s book entirely about women being sexually abused. Funny, the people I have known in dire poverty we’re more dimensional than these drudges. No senses of humor, nauseating sexuality, no street smarts. Just pathos.