This novel begins with a clear kind of balancing act happening. There’s an ambiguous to vague opening section where a boy named Darren is sitting in a police interrogation room dreaming about breaking the glass that he believes is hiding his interrogators. This story, in all italics, gets told through interstitial chapter in between the main narratives, pushing it to the periphery of the novel. From there we get an opening scene, a teenage boy drunk on a boat on a suburban lake looking for […]