This was amazing. His writing is so good and so subtle that it's only after you're done and you feel kind of lost and are still thinking about his characters that you realize how real they are.
A friend of mine who is reading Last Night at the Lobster right now said it best - "I know these people."
This book was a hell of a trick to pull off, too. Rotating narration, a series of unique voices, unmistakable. It could have so easily been confusing or sloppy, but it was incredibly precise.
He's so good at the details.
The story is deceptively simple- one day on the last summer before she leaves for college, Kim Larsen goes swimming with her friends, goes home to shower, and leaves for work. She is never seen again. The rest of the book follows her family and friends and how her being missing takes up more of their lives than her being there ever could have.
It was sad, but never felt exploitative. Wonderful.
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