I was recently sitting with a group of writers to whom Bill Meyers said, in so many words, while this isn't his most popular book, it's his personal favorite. So of course I had to read it. I gave this book 4 instead of 5 stars only because, as Meyers implies in the novel's introduction, fictiona...
There are very few books I can read more than once--not because I don't often find good books, but because there are so many books I haven't read and want to and don't want to spend time on books I've already read. Bill Myers' brilliant story, Eli, is one of the few (along with anything by Amy Ta...