Aphorisms and peril

Dell Parsons is a young man of15, who loves school, bees and failures (the game). He lives in Great Falls, Montana sad town, with Berner, his twin sister and his parents, Bev and Neeva.
Bev is a former captain in the Air Force, fired for his involvement in a shabby traffic Neeva is a teacher.
An ordinary family whose fate will switch when bad choices in poor choices, 2 parents go rob a bank and end cabin.

With about a beautiful, Dell then leaves for Canada to escape the orphanage. There, in the rural region of Sakatchewan, it is collected by Arthur Remlinger, a hotel owner who clearly hiding a secret.

The novel deals with the loss of innocence, the slender thread of destiny, ways to overcome trauma.

As the main character: "We all have a range of" I "to choose from."
Certainly.
But before arriving at this platitude (next about Philo tray "range of" self "? He finally make wind"), you will face the three parties involved in this book:
- The first lasts about 230 pages. It is vaguely interesting and very languid.
- The second is shorter sentence (215 pages), but far more boring.
- The third is very short (30 pages), but without interest.

Each contains its own set of aphorisms, which scattered the kindest weary readers: "" Make sense "... it means we accept things if we understand them, then we accept if we accept.. then one understands, "" Over the years, I tend to believe that every human situation turns around like a glove. Everything assures me this or that to be true may not be, "" In this world, there are two kinds of people ... those who understand that you never know, and then those who think they always know "," We never leave everything behind Once I believed. but cross a border does not change the bottom "," you sometimes cause trouble to take a clear position "... In short, the platitudes are enquillées continuously.

It's long, slow, overly descriptive, carrying hopes sometimes soon disappointed, with characters who should have the thickness and who do curiously, no. Looks like no characters are dug, this phenomenon is accentuated by the Dell detached narrative retracing its route.

Even the important events (including an unexpected passage on the relationship between the two twins) are treated completely neutral manner. This could be a strength, but Ford is not Camus and we did not want to be interested in these shadows that gently agitated in 500 pages of a lazy literary puzzle where everything is in everything, life n 'is a unique space, despite the borders, Bla, bla, bla ... Frankly physical border as a metaphor for the transition to adulthood, it was daring.
And why not the great river of life as we were there!

So, this life is so Dell telephoned, we quickly want to hang up.

Price Femina Etranger 2013. Duly noted.