A review by veliciajerus
Eli the Good by Silas House

5.0

This is a book, the greatest gift you can give some (as Nell said), and one I am glad to have read and own a personal copy of, too. It is a story of love, understand, forgiveness, rebellion, friendship, family, Vietnam vets, PTSD, and how children can absorb it all and still want to be Good. I sat at work, listening to the audio book and reading along, and crying with the characters. More than once it made me love them so deeply I cried, but not in the every-teenage-girl-is-dying-A-Walk-To-Remember kind of ways. These characters are full, reflective, real, and now forever a part of me. I hope a part of Eli is now a part of me.