After getting in a fight with his best friends from high school-his bros-shortly after graduation, Griffin Nichols is faced with a reality he'd never imagined. He's alone. In his version of manhood, he figures he needs to stash his feelings and pack them away among the ruins like dusty remnants. His job is to keep solitary watch, keep trudging through the dust, and keep protecting his jailed heart. Then he meets Maxwell Wallace, and she challenges everything he's ever believed about what it means to be a man, flinging the jail door wide open. But is Griffin ready to face those feelings when they are too heavy to carry alone and he thinks it's his job to do so?
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The cruel asphalt underneath me feels like the truth. 1
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(Mixed Plate Press, 12 October 2021, ebook, 403 pages, copy from the publisher via @edelweiss_squad)
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My copy on Edelweiss is called Swimming Sideways, another book by the author so I was surprised when the book was actually In the Echo of this Ghost Town. They are different books. I really enjoyed this book. It loosely fits into the YA category as Griffin in nineteen. The book is narrated in the first person by Griffin. I really liked his voice. I liked first person narrators when they work and it definitely does here as you get deep into Griffin's head and psyche as he struggles with becoming an adult, coming to terms with his own mistakes and his past and poor choices. I fell in love with this book.
