Review: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo // 5 💀 out of 5 // I picked this book up just to read the first couple pages, with no intention of continuing because I had an ARC to read next but this had me before the first chapter was even over. There was no putting it down and coming back to it later. I HAD to keep going, ARC be damned. I am Janice from Friends right now: OH 👐🏼 MY 👐🏼 GAWD 👐🏼 I feel like there is no way anything I say can do justice to what’s in this book. I’m not even sure I have all that many coherent thoughts, just a series of feelings that I’m struggling to articulate. I was so impressed with how immersive this book felt. It’s hugely experiential. Mandelo’s descriptions make heavy use of sensory information, with lines like “the cold sank straight through the gagging constriction of his throat to the cavern of his chest, grasping at him from the inside out” and “Andrew… [stood] in the wash o...