West Virginia

Reading this novel is like taking a punch in the gut from a close friend. It hurts and stuns and surprises, but you forgive him because he's your buddy and, well, you know you probably deserved it. Halstead writes of a young writer living in NYC who returns to West Virginia, where he grew up, after......more

This is hard for me to review. I finished it last night and I still can't figure what it was supposed to mean.Did it have a deep meaning that that I am missing ? It was a short book,easily could finish in one sitting.There was no story or plot ,just a two day trip a guy goes back home to west Virgin......more

Any time that I read a book set in West Virginia I hope that the author will treat the state with honesty and understanding. It is a place that is complicated and full of contradictions, with more beauty than ugliness, both in it's environment and it's people. Unfortunately this book makes no effort......more

Did you know that's Joe's real hair? Cause it is. damnnnn. Joe, a thousand other boys could never reach you, how could I have been the one? I saw the world spin beneath you & scatter like ice from the spoon That was your womb,comin' down. The world turned over. & angels fall without you there. & I go......more

This is a novel of finding, losing, and defining "home". Review to come......more