The Brother's Silver By Marc Jampole ( Review )

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Author : Marc Jampole @jampolemarc

Rating: 9.5/10📚✔️

The Brother's Silver is an inspirational novel written by Marc Jampole. It's a story of two boys who faced and dealt with their trauma and became great people.

Jules and Leon Silver sit at a dusty Formica table in a cold kitchen, drinking warm sugar water. Downstairs in the basement, their mother is unconscious, having swallowed hundreds of Librium while the brothers were at Boy Scout camp, her latest suicide attempt. The food cupboards are empty. The phone doesn't give a dial tone. As the sun goes down, the kitchen grows cold. The boys sit in silence, waiting for their mother to die. She doesn't, but the guilt and anger they feel haunt the brothers for decades. The Brothers Silver follows Jules and Leon as they try to find their unanchored way through the cultural upheavals of the second half of the 20th century. The younger Leon lives on the drug-addled edges of society. The older brother, Jules, falls into a destructive relationship that parallels his past insecurities and chaos. What lies in store for the Silver brothers? Recovery or turmoil?

The 12 chapters of The Brothers Silver unfold in ten voices, each of which has its own language and style, making the novel a tour de force of technique in the American tradition of accessible literary innovation established by Heller, Pynchon, and Wallace.

The Brother's silver is a book that can be a bit dark but you can find yourself relating to it too. The dark aspect of the book deals with childhood trauma and depression. The chapters help us know the story of the two brothers Jules and Leon Silver and how they deal and overcame their trauma in their own way and became great gentleman.

The book is recommended if you want to read about people who overcame and dealt with their childhood trauma. The writting by the author is descriptive and realistic which makes the reader feel empathy to what the boys faced. The book is sure to make you appreciate your family more.

Thank you, Marc Jampole for giving me this opportunity to reading such a wonderful book of yours. 

Looking reading to read more from you.