Boy's Life

I was completely blown over by this book. I thought it would be another pseudo-autobiographical slog about being a young aspiring writer. Instead, I found it one of the best of the pseudo-autobiographical novels I've ever read. And it had some magical realism to boot. The story takes place in 1964 rural Alabama and is written in a vignette-type form. The characters are likeable and relatable, even for a city boy like me. And I was surprised and drawn into the main plots running through the vignettes. This book won the 1992 World Fantasy Award and the 1991 Stoker Award for horror, even though the supernatural elements are mostly fantasy.

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