"Among the Ten Thousand Things"

"Among the Ten Thousand Things" by Julia Pierpont is an excellent debut novel that hit very close to home for me.  The author gets our attention with a shocking opener, but we very quickly learn that this is a book about family dynamics and a family coming apart.  Yes, there are plenty of "coming of age" moments, but Pierpont offers so much more in her study of how individuals deal with the pain of loss and separation.  Despite the shouting efforts of a previous reviewer to alter it, I believe the disjointed timeline presentation is brilliant and is inteneded to effect the way we read the remainder of the book.  Don't mess with the order - it's perfect.  Thank you for the Goodreads Firstreads book - certainly one of my recent favorites.