Such Kindness | 
pickOnce a builder and a family man, Tom Lowe Jr finds himself approaching rock bottom after falling from a roof. Unable to work, Tom lost his wife and his son as he spiraled into addiction and has crash landed in subsidized housing feeling angry and useless. When the bottom rises up to meet him, Tom…bounces. With his eyes opened to the people around him, he begins to learn to play the hand he was dealt. ⬇️
LeafingThroughLife All the grace that was missing from House of Sand and Fog is here in spades, almost to the point of being overdone. Dubus draws human pain and hopelessness so realistically that it demands to be tempered. In House of Sand and Fog it wasn‘t, but in this book Dubus gives grace along with humanity to his characters as they learn to care for each other in their own flawed ways. This book and Tom‘s lessons feel important. Glad I gave Dubus another try. 1d
BarbaraBB Interesting. I loved House of Sand and Fog and I guess you didn‘t. I am now very interested in this one! 1d
LeafingThroughLife @BarbaraBB I thought House of Sand and Fog was really well written but it was so unrelentingly bleak that my lasting impression of it is of extreme frustration. If it hadn‘t been good, I wouldn‘t have cared enough to be frustrated, but I couldn‘t love it because of that. I think this one did a similarly good job of making me care about struggling characters, but there‘s a little more hope baked in. Would love to hear what you think if you read it! 1d
BarbaraBB Thanks! I much appreciate your heads up and will stack the book! 1d
