Beautiful prose, one that glues the reader to the book.🌟🌟🌟🌟 A kind of distorted coming of age story which follows a 15 year old boy. After they are orphaned, Jack, his sisters and younger brother decide to stay on their own, isolated from the world. The novel explores the protagonist’s feelings regarding his late parents, his relationship with his siblings and his sexual desires toward his older sister. There are some disturbing passages but I don’t think this is a horror story. It unveils the dark corners of a child’s mind who is trying to discover who he is amid the aftermath of the greatest loss in his life. Thought some of the actions by the kids may be seen as morally shocking I wonder how much of that shock is socially constructed (as opposed to innate). We, the readers, are bound by an intricate moral system which frames our assessment. Left to their own devices the kids are able to escape those boundaries and build their own, perhaps simpler, moral system....
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