Review: A beautiful, lyrical story of pain meeting pain
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2012
This short book, in its compact beauty, took my breath away. David Antrobus' road trip memoir (for lack of a tidier category), a story of pain meeting pain, haunted me for months after reading it. I read the book once with a lump in my throat and then a second time because I just needed this beautiful prose to flow through me once again. Words like "haunting" and "evocative" feel too weak to describe the real power here. Dissolute Kinship has a pulse, a heartbeat, a lyricism that took me beyond the smoking hole in the ground left by the 9/11 attacks on Manhattan to the soul of the people left standing, reflected in the eyes of another wounded warrior. To say I'm merely looking forward to the sequel would be a gross understatement.