Status Updates From A Fine Balance

“Losing, and losing again, is the very basis of the life process, till all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”

“His sentences poured out like perfect seams, holding the garment of his story together without calling attention to the stitches. Was he aware of ordering the events for her? Perhaps not – perhaps a very the very act of telling created a natural design. Perhaps it was a knack that humans had, for cleaning up their untidy existences – a hidden survival weapon, like antibodies in the bloodstream.”

“No teeth. All crooked, and paining in the mouth. Bastard stupid dentist, useless fellow. My carpenter could make better teeth.”

😂😂😂

713 pages eh? Wait what do the reviews say?


“This is the story of shattered dreams, by the time I finished it, I was sobbing.”

“Brutal, awful book”

“this is probably the most depressing book I’ve read in my entire life”

“yes it was depressing. Yes it was dark. Yes, it was dismal.”

“this book was like a hard kick to the balls”


Woohoo lets do this!

Well this sounds like a picker-upper….

Super impressed so far. This is an emotionally loaded story with a lot of family history and societal unrest woven in. This author is excellent with imagery to where you can feel the emotional context of a scene entirely through his descriptions.