Reviews for Once You Go Back: A Novel

The average rating for Once You Go Back: A Novel based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-09-18 00:00:00 Johan Botha Absolutely fucking gorgeous -- intimate and lonely, aloof and familiar, claustrophobic and distant but so specific in its awareness that even a catalog of a deteriorating home life on the edge of growing up becomes something almost like hope. Thank you!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-24 00:00:00 Russell Bullard A novel narrated by a gay boy growing up in a tough household with an abusive stepdad. The novel reads as one long letter to his sister, referring to her as "you". I liked moments of this, the way DA Martin sets up the inevitable clashes between a conservative stepfather and the two children he disapproves of and wants to control. Mostly, I just felt sad some people have to go through this.