Gary Rhodes’s Reviews > The Collected Essex County > Status Update

This book is great. It’s a bit sad, but not bleak or without hope. Despite being a bit on the predictable side, the second story really hits hard. The fact that I could see where’d things were going almost made it worse. I wanted to be able to shout at the characters, tell them to stop before they made the mistakes, but like the old man telling the story we can’t change what happens in his past