The Scientists
A Family Romance

Read this in various locations (parks, rooms, trains) but finished the last few pages in the tiny park at First Ave and Houston about a block from where the author bounds up the subway steps toward the end. I expected to look up and see a 3D projection of Marco turn the corner and bound toward the L......more

Way too much introspection going on. A boy's father is dying of AIDS through most of his growing up; as an adult, rather than ask his mother about his father's life and the real circumstances under which he got the disease, he re-reads every obscure modernist book his father lent him in a misbegotte......more

Picture my finger resting on the page just before the precious very last one to read and I am dreading this book to end. As much as I did struggle to find my way into this memoir, the going, by midway in, was as easy as a stroll in Central Park, even though the topic and the consequences never were......more

I quite liked this. Some reviewers criticized him for being overly intellectual but some people do process emotional events intellectually (and lots of other people to a lesser extent). Usually you see it in fiction where authors have their "smart" character do it for dramatic juxtaposition (the sci......more