Review: Great for those 15 min you have to spare
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2012
I am a quick reader (I can usually get through a 300 page paperback in less than four hours.  Less if I don't stop to eat), so this was a great read while waiting for my caramel frap at a major coffee whore distributor.The fire that consumed the characters dear ones also burned up the "page".  Although I wouldn't compare the sparse prose to that of Steinbeck, I would compare the brevity, and the ability to draw in the reader with instant kinship towards the characters.  He has taken the stock foreigner character and made a quick emotional connection to them.Art? Pulp? Both?  Yes.  But good arty pulp.