An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining country
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.
With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all.
Funny and heartbreaking, O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent.
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One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
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母亲因枪杀父亲而被判了终身监禁，大儿子照顾着三个妹妹，并和自己儿时的性幻想对象，一有夫之妇搞上了，然后发现父亲竟然是被二女儿用枪对着母亲时误杀的，原因仅仅是因为父亲常年虐待儿女时从来没打过母亲。大女儿从小被父亲打的时候就形成了恋兄癖，经常半夜去sexual harass哥哥，最终无法忍受哥哥与别的女人搞在一起而杀了那个女人，还把罪名留给哥哥，最终二女儿把哥哥和姐姐的性关系公诸于众，把他们都送进了大牢——what a fucking story
评分母亲因枪杀父亲而被判了终身监禁，大儿子照顾着三个妹妹，并和自己儿时的性幻想对象，一有夫之妇搞上了，然后发现父亲竟然是被二女儿用枪对着母亲时误杀的，原因仅仅是因为父亲常年虐待儿女时从来没打过母亲。大女儿从小被父亲打的时候就形成了恋兄癖，经常半夜去sexual harass哥哥，最终无法忍受哥哥与别的女人搞在一起而杀了那个女人，还把罪名留给哥哥，最终二女儿把哥哥和姐姐的性关系公诸于众，把他们都送进了大牢——what a fucking story
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分读完后震撼到睡不着，主人公的命运不断在我脑海盘旋，越读到后面越发现前面的伏笔太多了，只有读到最后一个单词才有种恍然大悟的感觉。人物性格很饱满，对哈利的描写简直太立体了，懦弱，纠结，善良，放纵，信任……在他身上不断交织，还有他的妹妹们，让人心疼，困惑又愤怒。我最喜欢Amber, 自小父亲的虐待和母亲的无力让她和哥哥相互取暖，由此产生了不见光的情愫。面对哥哥的逃避，她愤怒，难过，矛盾，她不断地和男人发生关系，不断地引起哥哥的注意，不断地寻找爱。知道哥哥和Cellia的情事之后，她再次放纵自己，可是在哥哥说想让她留下的时候，她又充满欢乐的留了下来。相对于Misty的黑暗，Joddy的单纯，Amber的热烈，对爱的渴望实在太让人动容。总之，这是一本让人舍不得放下的书。
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