“Megan Kruse’s Call Me Home: Family confronts a violent past,” by Wingate Packard for The Seattle Times
What is home, and where is your life supposed to be, if where you are is a place of pain and fear? These are questions that arise in “Call Me Home” (Hawthorne Books, 280 pp., $18.95), Seattle author Megan Kruse’s impressively forceful debut novel.
It is no small feat for Kruse to handle memory and reflection in each of her characters’ lives in different ways.
Kruse’s prose is vivid, precise and promising.
The violence in the subtly efficient language with which Kruse captures the effects of physical abuse is well-tempered by the humor and humanity in minor characters outside this family circle, whose dialogue is pitch-perfect.
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