A review by suncoyote
Smonk by Tom Franklin

3.0

What a dark little tale! I felt a bit like this was a story of human id: everybody is selfish, sexualized, cruel, violent, and quick to kill. So, in some ways that made the book one-dimensional. While clever and unique, it was not a balanced book, which makes it easy to dismiss--which is also a shame because Franklin turns some interesting phrases and wrote such great regional dialogue.

I'd like to read some of Franklin's other work. I'd like to see something where he was trying a bit harder to create realistic characters instead of caricatures.