After the Parade : A Novel (Hardcover)

from icolford

Aaron Englund has never lived alone. Literate and sensitive, caring and self-conscious to an almost debilitating degree, for the past twenty years Aaron has been a partner in an apparently loving but somewhat smothering relationship with Walter, a much older man who plucked him out of an emotiona...

from Beamis12

Aaron leaves his partner, a mam who he has spent much of his life with. He leaves him in the middle of the night, U-haul packed and ready to go. There is something so intimate, so real and heartbreaking about these characters. The author treats them and their stories with a great deal of sympathy...

from JennysBookBag.com

I'm surprised that this is a debut novel. She writes like a veteran. This is beautifully written with characters you get to know on an intimate level. The protagonist's loneliness is very relatable. I love her storytelling, which is told in a series of flashbacks, but they're written in a very se...

from c.archer

Can a singular event change the lives of a family? I think this has been proven over and over to be true. In this case, the lives of the Englund family can be categorized as B.P. and A.P:before the parade and after the parade. The story is actually much deeper than that specific event, but it's r...

from froxgirl

This incredible novel of a man's entire forty year span of being treated terribly as a child and feeling worse as an adult should result in such a depressing read that putting it aside it would be a mercy. However, the author is so skilled that the seemingly trivial occurrences in the life of Aar...