Review: Sway Between Dreams and Reality
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
Sway Between Dreams and RealityIn Sway, by Matthew Keith, the dream town may be the place to find answers. Or more questions. The sun neither rises nor sets. The wind is hot, moist, and sticky. Crazy Bob's saloon/barber shop's doors are painted, curvaceous legs, with metal handles set in the stiletto heels. The whiskey burns all the way down. Curtains twitch in the windows. Like actors on the stage, the tiny populace acts out the drama in the dream. Until it ends with a bang.Sway is a gritty, compelling psychological drama. As dreams and reality merge and unravel, so does the life on the stage of reality. The past with its extreme abuse, violence, and abandonment encroaches on the mundane present. What is reality? What are dreams? Where's the little boy who loved his mother and was brutally betrayed by his father?I highly recommend the book, provided the reader metaphorically girds his loins and leaves his rose-colored glasses at home.The book is set in Radcliff, Kentucky, near Fort Knox. I lived in Radcliff many years ago. Near the overpass in Radcliff, you could get a car, a tattoo stenciled by Big Daddy, a great, lard-laden dinner, and perhaps…a social disease.