Loose Ends Book

I like it when poets write novels. Sometimes it doesn't quite work, but when it does, you kind of get this wonderful 200-page prose poem.

Really interesting stuff going on here, with that tension between lies and truth, and the diabetes I think being a metaphor for a lot of the things that Davis is going through. I thought there were a lot of stories and relationships being explored and all fed off of each other. Two main things: 1. I think it was a good call to use 3rd person so we would get distance from a man who is a self-proclaimed liar. However, I wanted more lying in the narrative, if that makes sense, something to make me more uneasy. 2. Lots of loose ends at the close of the book, but obviously that was the intention, and I like messy endings. This one was well done.

But seriously, did the jacket designer spend NO time whatsoever on this cover??? The photo is decent enough, even very good, with the hand and the blurriness and such...but the actual design part! Gross.

Grade: A-