⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️'Pity' by Andrew McMillan is a gritty and well written debut.
Brothers Alex and Brian have spent their whole life in the town where their father lived and his father, too. Still reeling from the collapse of his personal life, Alex, is now in his middle age, and must reckon with a part of his identity he has long tried to mask. Simon is the only child of Alex and had practically no memory of the mines. Now in his twenties and working in a call centre, he derives passion from his side hustle in sex work and his weekly drag gigs.
This book really grabs you and you cannot not help but be pulled into the story.
The poetic way this hard tale of these two brothers is told is amazing.
The writing is visual and the characters really leave an effect on you when you have finished.
How the two themes of mining villages and dealing with identities is so well brought together.
This will surely be one of my reads of the year and will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read in return for a review.