One of my best friends recommended this book to me. She told me that the author was local to the area and she remembers interacting with him and other characters from the book. When I first started reading it I was under the impression that EVERYTHING was true. Once I finished it a friend of the author’s told me that not all of it was true, some of it was embellished. After that I felt a little better, until I realized that I was scared to know what was really true, because there were so many crazy things that happened in the story.
I like the fact that all of the characters are real, and also knowing the places they hung out at and spent their time. It is very self-reflective and at times more and more disturbing. Again, this is the reason why I was afraid to know what was really true.
(Fall 2008)
Are you in Western Massachusetts? That's where the story is set, and that's where we both live now.
ReplyDeleteI live in Northampton, MA
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