Cry Father : A Book Club Recommendation!

from Itzey

I received an advance e-copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.I started this book with the knowledge that it would be about father and son relationships. I wasn't expecting to be taken to the darkest corner of mankind wallowing in drugs and unimaginab...

from Hagelstein

If there's a theme to the nihilistic, excellent, Cry Father it's summarized in one succinct sentence: "Most of what you think is your life can be ruptured in an instant." Patterson Wells writes this to his son, who died as a young child, and would know the truth of the sentiment. The book proves ...

from Archivist13

Set in the badlands of Colorado, outside of the city of Denver, Benjamin Whitmer has produced a story as dark, gritty and violent as anything that has been written by Cormac McCarthy or Denis Johnson with Cry Father. The main character, Patterson, living off the grid in the Colorado mountains, na...

from froxgirl

Oh the heartache. Quote from this excellent rendering of two men in parallel trouble: "It's almost impossible to measure the damage that damaged young men can do to themselves". The men, no longer young but still being damaged and creating it, are Patterson, an electrical lineman who lost his you...

from Archivist13

Set in the badlands of Colorado, outside of the city of Denver, Benjamin Whitmer has produced a story as dark, gritty and violent as anything that has been written by Cormac McCarthy or Denis Johnson with Cry Father. The main character, Patterson, living off the grid in the Colorado mountains, na...