Intelligent and powerful scripture it must nevertheless be to train and keep the reader into a story of 600 pages, probing the mechanisms that led a teenager to commit the irreparable, is a set as bright as dark. If the novel addresses the backdrop of American society in general, it refers to the more specific issues of parenting, the reaction to bereavement and vanity sometimes takes the search of meaning, as the human soul is cryptic and multiple. The issue of liability is dissected with great precision and finesse, as the ambivalence of a mother for never having been duped by his relationship with his son, yet had to remain prisoners in order to survive. Hard but very interesting.
