Review: Simply One of the Best Things I've Read This Year
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2013
This is my 3rd book by Carillo and I don't give out 5-stars lightly, but this book was fantastic.  This is the story of a young man, Jack, fresh out of college in the 80s starting his first job as a reporter for a rag of a newspaper in New York and what that job teaches him about the world.  He meets a much older and more streetwise photographer who doesn't serve as a mentor or a guide as much as a stalwart friend as Jack takes on his first excursion into the real world.Even though Jack learns something about who he is and what the world around him is all about, I wouldn't call this a coming of age book per se.  He learns and grows and the world keeps moving and life happens all around him all the time.In some ways, this is a light, fast read and in some ways this is a pretty tough read.  It's both.  there are some pretty dark topics and dark things in here and there are some great relationships built and some wonderful things that happen.It's a book about a life and I truly enjoyed every moment I spent reading it.