Prosperity

What a unique, funny, poignant book - all delivered in an unforgettable (although sometimes difficult to parse) voice. After reading Alexis Hall's debut, Glitterland, I can easily say he doesn't write the same character twice! This is an author who loves language and uses each word brilliantly. At various times I felt like I was reading Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange and Oliver Twist if any of those classics featured people of color, homosexuals and genderqueers (if that's the correct term).

I read a review on a romance novel blog that indicated this is not a romance novel. Well, not on a traditional level that involves the protagonist, but there is a beautiful, tormented love story between two secondary characters, and our singular narrator finds his own happily ever after, if your definition of HEA means finding your place in the world and people who make you want to become your best possible self, whatever that may be.