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Starred Review on January 31, 2014 | Fiction
An elegy for the blue-collar worker, Vlautin's (Lean on Pete) fourth novel focuses on three ordinary people and spotlights their essential dignity in the face of economic hardship. Eight years after leaving Iraq with a traumatic brain injury, Leroy Kervin in a rare moment of clarity attempts to commit suicide at his group home, unable to see any way that he could live a happy life. Freddie McCall, at the f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More