Commute audiobook. Not thrilled with the narration.

Book was fine. I keep seeing it compared to To Kill A Mockingbird but I much prefer TKAM.

It's about a lot of things: class, race, the change that comes with time, isolation, hope, failure, loneliness, innocence, and basically lots of things that make up the modern human experience. These are all interesting subjects to think about. But I didn't really care one way or the other about any of the characters; and I hated the rubbish representation of African American English, which sounded way too "uncle Remus-y" and made it hard to take the characters whose dialogue was written that way seriously.