text: Here is my favorite review of Brown's first book:
  
  "I had trouble seeing Peter so much as a victim of his upbringing - but rather someone trying not to take responsibility for his own poor choices in life. At the end he says he now has a great relationship with his parents (although there is little discussion of how that happened) and that the parents are actively in his young daughters' lives.....If my parents messed up my life so badly I surely wouldn't want them involved with my children.....the story did just not ring true to me."
  
  His latest sounds like another depressing tale of dysfunction masquerading as something deep and revelatory. I'll pass.