Genre & Modality
Crime Fiction
Audiobook
Video Transcript:
Blacktop Wasteland provided another desperate character for me to add to my collection of favorites. I'm still processing the story, especially the way that it ends. Everything that Beauregard, our main character, goes through in the novel is driven by desperation.
Desperation regarding, his relationship with his father.
Desperation based on his current, circumstances at the beginning of the novel.
And when you are desperate, you make decisions and you do things that you would not do if you had a clear mind and your desperation was not weighing on you. And just like that reoccurring theme of Beauregard's battle between who he feels he should be in order to be there for his family and who he thinks he's destined to be based on his knowledge of his father and some inherited traits that he thinks were passed on to all the men in the Montague family. It's just very interesting how that culminates in very stressful, and I say stressful lighthearted, but, like, very stressful situations. And you see the impact that his choices, his desperation, that battle between, the two identities that he is embodying or he thinks he is embodying and that they're two separate identities and how it impacts everybody around him.
Oof.
Just masterful.
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