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Book: You Can See More From Up Here

Author: Mark Guerin

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: fiction lovers

Publication Date: October 1, 2019

Genre: Contemporary

Recommended Age: can’t recommend, dnf-ed

Publisher: Golden Antelope Press

Pages: 436

Synopsis: In 2004, when middle-aged Walker Maguire is called to the deathbed of his estranged father, his thoughts return to 1974. He'd worked that summer at the auto factory where his dad, an unhappily retired Air Force colonel, was employed as plant physician. Witness to a bloody fight falsely blamed on a Mexican immigrant, Walker kept quiet, fearing his white co-workers and tyrannical father. Lies snowball into betrayals, leading to a life-long rift between father and son that can only be mended by the past coming back to life and revealing its long-held secrets. You Can See More From Up Here is a coming-of-age tale about the illusion of privilege and the power of the past to inform and possibly heal the present.

Review: Had to DNF at 43%. I wasn’t feeling the book but it’s a good book. The book is wrote well and it’s a fantastic story, but I’m not connecting with the characters and I am not enjoying reading it. It’s also reading as a bit of a white savior, but I’m not the best person to decide if that’s really happening or not.

Verdict: Not for me, but maybe for you!