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Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this meme. To participate, share the first line or two of the book you are currently reading and, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line.

This appears to be, as hoped, another amazing Haven Kimmel novel. Check out these opening lines, I tell you:

I never
I never had sex with my father but I would have, if he had agreed. Once he realized how I felt he never again let me so much as lean against him while we watched television.

I think it bears pointing out that there is no typo in this excerpt: “I never” is indeed repeated once before the first full sentence. There is an element of dreamscape here.

These captivating first lines (who amongst us doesn’t now want to know more?!) are a fair representation of what’s to come. Our narrator may be the archetype, the quintessence of the unreliable narrator you hear so much about.

Stay tuned. I think this is going to be another great one.

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