An interesting tale of how a man came to blow himself to pieces.
Especially the first half is beautiful. Writer Peter Aaron recalls how his friendship with Ben Sachs (also a writer) began. It is about the inexplicable force we call character, mind, or madness and where that drives us, and about how both their lives were touched by other people, by good and bad luck and by improbable coincidences to lead to the state they are in now. Also, it is about hindsight, about how knowledge of an ending might change the light in which we see past events. Is there really a coherent story to be told, or is it all trivial reconstruction and reinterpretation?
These improbabilities increase in the second half of the book, which made it harder to go along with the story. But overall it's one of those books that will stay with you for all the right reasons.