## Review Date 7/21/2024 #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction ## What is the story Three brothers grow up nearly ferrel in a poor neighborhood of NY. Justin Torres distills growing up in a poor abusive household into the chaotic remnants of the youngest boy's childhood. One hundred small pages explode into the reader's mind with 3-5 page vignettes tearing the story through the growing up process. ## What else do I wonder about? How did the author decide to keep so little of the story? ## Action Remove, remove, [[remove to gain]]. Like "[[the world was unmoved]]" from [[The Vaster Wilds]], a few moments capture so much with so little. p. 84 "But now I know," he said, "God's scattered all the clean among the dirty. You and me and Joel, we're nothing more than a fistful of seed that God tossed into the mud and horseshit. We're on our own." p. 85 "What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to heaven," ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/growth #on/childhood #on/trauma ## Source: Torres, J. (with Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress)). (2011). _We the animals_. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.