to be honest, this book baffled me. a pulitzer prize winner, it screams 'high quality' but i could not get past it's poetic nature. sentences could fill near a page - thoughts joined by commas and semicolons - but couldn't keep my attention long enough to get the point. a man is dying. his thoughts are to his childhood and his abandonement by his father. mental illness seems to run throughout the story. first person narration switches from son to father... yup. baffled me