Review: Hornby meets Hitchcock
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2012
Mishka Shubaly is like a lightning rod. He's been shipwrecked, survived consumption of everything from Opana to cat tranquilizers, and now this. At a time when he opened himself up to love, he found himself exposed to...something else. Something that doesn't really have a name in our language. A hybrid. A hydra.Mishka doesn't flinch as he examines his own flaws, but the reader is going to need equal courage. We've all wanted as much as the boy in this story wants, but rarely do we get what he gets.Throughout his catastrophes and epiphanies, Mishka is a thoughtful explorer and his language is saturated with beautiful, painful images that bring this story frighteningly to life.