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A review by wrentheblurry
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
4.0
First off, I put this on my military-war-terrorism shelf only because the narrator's sister and father are heavily into Civil War re-enactments. That said, Jane Hamilton is incredibly talented at characterization. I am convinced she could portray the point of view of a couch and I would come to bond with the furniture and understand why it sometimes doesn't want people to sit on it. Here, she has poured her skill into the voice of a teenage boy.
The boy, Henry, reads his mother's email, and discovers she is having an affair. Then he cannot stop from reading the emails, though he doesn't discuss it with her. Hamilton takes us on a deep journey (though it doesn't last that long in days) into Henry's feelings and thought processes as he tries to deal with the information he's discovered.
I wouldn't normally care to read about people who re-enact war battles, or pianists and other musicians that fell in love, Hamilton's impressive writing style won me over, and quickly.
Well done, with a satisfying ending.
The boy, Henry, reads his mother's email, and discovers she is having an affair. Then he cannot stop from reading the emails, though he doesn't discuss it with her. Hamilton takes us on a deep journey (though it doesn't last that long in days) into Henry's feelings and thought processes as he tries to deal with the information he's discovered.
I wouldn't normally care to read about people who re-enact war battles, or pianists and other musicians that fell in love, Hamilton's impressive writing style won me over, and quickly.
Well done, with a satisfying ending.