Loverboys Book

Castillo's stories are beautifully written, but at the same time they are almost too casual. Not Dybek casual where you feel like you're best friend or your crush is telling you a story that's almost a secret on a 5 hour bus ride to somewhere humid, not Munro casual where it's like being stuck in a room with everyone you knew personally in high school, you all still live in your small home town, you all still have the same problems. Castillo is family casual, like way familiar and unexplained because you should already know parts of the story, she doesn't connect any dots for you and it's written like you're living it but with no context. It's good but also incredibly frustrating. I don't if I like it or hate it.