David Amsden

An unnamed protagonist recounts his youth, mainly revolving around the divorce between his mom and his cocaine-addicted dad.

I really like Amsden's writing voice -- it's rambling, but it's calculated rambling. Parts of this book were darkly hilarious, like when his dad takes him to a crack house and then the author (who is 9 or 10 at the time) watches a porn video while his dad and some other guy do coke in another room.

Overall, the topic isn't original (divorce and its consequences), but sylistically, this book is great.… (mer)