I highly recommend this book when it comes out. The writing is beautiful (although I did catch a few glitches / typos in the ARC). The language is beautiful. Just a really great read that will leave you thinking and wondering about the characters after you put it down.

Erik Schroder, at the young age of fourteen, reinvents himself as Eric Kennedy. He heads off to summer camp and becomes the American youth he wishes to be, not the German immigrant he is. He parlays a camp application into college recommendations, and soon he has created a life for himself out of imagination and determination, but mostly falsehood. We enter his life as he writes a confessional autobiography - throwing himself on the mercy of his estranged wife and ultimately the courts. What follows makes a narrator you can't imagine ever being sympathetic into a likeable but flawed man. His life and his psyche unravel before you in well written prose.



Half way through now - still thoroughly entranced in these characters and this story. I highly recommend this one!

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Three stars at roughly page 50 might seem generous - but I'm really drawn into this book. Was from the very first. I picked up the advanced reader copy at work and couldn't wait to get started based on the jacket synopsis . . . . I'll keep you posted, but so far it's a great read.