Book Reviews
In his promising debut, Hill wrings lightness from a hopeless situation. Stacey “Shakespeare” Williams returns to the eastern Colorado farmland of his childhood and discovers that his widower father’s senility has worsened.... So Shakes moves in to look after his ailing pa.... But bills mount and foreclosure looms, and Shakes’s high school buddies devise a plan: rob a bank.... Though Shakes’s psychic paralysis is palpable, it’s hard to understand...what stalled his life’s takeoff back in Denver [or]....why he refuses to look for at least one parachute during his father’s nosedive.
Publishers Weekly
Suddenly caretaker of his senile father and the family farm in eastern Colorado, to which he has just returned, Stacey "Shakespeare" Williams links up with some old high school buddies and hatches a plan to rob the victimizing local bank. Do they really mean to go through with it? Dark comedy with an in-the-news edge.
Library Journal
A fine first novel from a writer with a great sense of character.
Booklist
You can go home again, but Lord knows why you'd ever want to. Such is the lesson learned by rural drifter Stacey "Shakespeare" Williams in this agreeable, offbeat debut novel..... The only hole is that we learn almost nothing of Shakespeare's back story.... Shakespeare eventually decides that his best option is an unrealistic plan to rob the bank; whether he'll go through with it is a running question throughout the book. A story about a father and son who bond against the odds, with an ending as quirkily satisfying as the rest of the book
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