Literature -- 3 stars
When 15 year-old Sequoyah's mother is sent to prison, he gets sent to the Troutt home where he shares a room with George, who is probably autistic, and becomes fascinated with Rosemary, the third of the Troutt's foster children. The Troutt's may not be the best foster parents, but they seem to be trying in their own odd way. ----- This is one of those books where nothing happens, where an actual plot would get in the way of the purposeful, well-written nothingness. Penned in a straight forward, no nonsense style, the family seems to lurch along, mired in the ordinary comings and going of five people so detached from one another that they may as well be living in separate worlds. Even Sequoyah's hormone driven fascination with Rosemary is rendered with such a lack of emotion that the result is stifling. The undercurrent of five individual lives passing in the night is both moving and off-putting. Unfortunately, rather than being opened to a profound revelation of the humanness exposed, in the end, I was simply depressed.
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