HardcoverA toddler's family is murdered and he escapes their fate only by wandering out of the house in the middle of the attacks. The cemetery down the road agrees to give him the "freedom of the graveyard" and he grows up there -- a live boy in a dead world.
There's both beauty and sadness here, but it felt a bit more "young" than "adult" and there's not much here to hold on to once the last page is read. Definitely well-written, but has the same properties as the characters in the book: insubstantial and forgettable -- though, in their cases, it was deliberate.
B
