One of the best books I've read all year. If you know me, you know I'm VERY particular about what I consider a true 5 star book, and this is DEFINITELY it. They can crush you right down to the goddamn ground.
Listen, when you're a black man in America you live by the weight of people's low expectations on your back every day.
It’s a thought provoking thriller that has you, like its center character, rooting for him yet feeling an intuitive dread that there are potentially no good results. Abandonment, parental responsibility, and violence passed on from one generation to the next. But Cosby is playing with many themes here to great affect. Cosby elevates the typical trope of the good man trying to get out but pulled back in by its protagonist not being the typical white family man, but a black man trying to thrive in a racist south. Beauregard is a phenomenal character: Complex, loving, prone to violence, and struggling to be a different father than the one he had, S.A. Feeling like he has no choice, Bug reluctantly agrees to take part, setting off a cinematic chain of events that translate into easily one of the best thrillers I’ve read in a while. He’s approached by a sleazy hustler from his past who comes to him to be part of a quick money making bank heist where Bug has to do nothing except what he’s best at: Drive the getaway car.Ĭars are Bugs life and livelihood, running and owning a local car repair shop faced with its own troubles due to a flashy new competitor in town. As a charismatic, hard working family man, who finds himself backed against a wall due to a number of unforeseen financial hardships, Beauregard “Bug” Montage certainly fits this bill. Wikipedia describes noir fiction as a subgenera of crime fiction where right and wrong are not clearly defined, and the protagonists are seriously and often tragically flawed.
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