Review: Great writing...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2013
This book chronicles mainly a two day period in the life of ten year old Billy. That summer without a care in the world, Billy was sitting on top of the world being the chosen friend of the Good Humor ice cream lady, Nancy Sutcliffe. With endless amounts of ice cream and the chance to steer the truck, he knew that he would be the envy of all his friends until all the treats that were given resulted in Billy having to pay the price in the end.Later that evening plagued with the thoughts of the lewd acts Nancy Sutcliffe had him perform on her, his self-doubt caused him to admit to his mother the sexual assault that a very adult Nancy had perform on a very juvenile Billy. His mother was outraged with the developments vowing to make Nancy pay for corrupting the wrong child.This book had my attention from the very beginning before the story started right to the final page. If you think all the focus of this book should be on Nancy, you are wrong. This story centers around Billy's potential schizophrenic mother, Bridgette, and his relationship with her. His mother has a lot of deep issues that grab at your heart strings outside of the molestation of Billy aspect of this story. Her wavering mental health shatters in the wake of learning the events that Billy had to endure.The only negative that I can mention (and this is not a negative really) is during the description of Nancy and the acts, it had an almost erotic feel to the passage versus disturbing. After I thought about it for a time, I ended up changing my opinion on it. The passage was excellently written due to it being an account of Billy, and of course a lot of ten year old boys would view the act in that manner. It was a good balance of discomfort and prepubescent male hormones.Awesome read for anyone who is willing to dive into the dark subject of pedophilia and mental health seen through the eyes of a ten year old Billy.