A tough, but incredibly important read for all.

My only issue with the book was the organization (with all the overlapping timelines and flashbacks, I got a bit confused at times) and the repetition (my usual irk).


Favorite lines/passages:

He was nineteen years old and should have felt as sweet as a bluebird in the dew, but in the awful damp of the early morning, after another night of sleeping on cold concrete -or not sleeping- he moved like an old man, grumbling like the world was out to get him, had in fact perhaps already gotten him, struck him down without mercy or care or intent as if it hadn't even seen him standing there, he had just been in the way.

Let the pilot and copilot read the dials and mark the birds; Victor only wanted to recline his seat and watch the border recede below him like a line of marching ants following a trail of sugar to its source.

King knelt back down in front of them. Looked at him with eyes so green he understood how you could drown in someone and never want to come back.