Ron Francis, Dad (Self-Portrait as My Father)Took me more than six weeks to read these 346 pages... cf the 600 pages of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in four days and the 850 pages of Echo in the Bone in about two weeks.
Because it was just so effin' sad. So many miserable things to happen to a grieving boy. Relentless.
I bore with it only out of respect for the presentation... it was well written... economy of words and all that.
There is a lovely scene at the very, very, very end -- but it feels like scant reward for the price paid.
