Review: nicely written period piece
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
Sometimes you read a 300 page book and you can barely remember it a week later,  and here, in a very short 44 pages,  Allen and Mand create a complete, detailed, memorable world.  We are in the time of the Great Depression,  where depressing things happen, and our hero, Whit Stoddard is better off than some but nowhere near where he would like to be -  "Funny how privileged he felt with only a dollar to his name.  The one-eyed man in the land of the blind."  He meets a mysterious man who seems to offer him great kindness, and while Peter's back story is sad and a bit confusing,  their connection is immediate and strong. I enjoyed it and will reread.