Victoria Patterson - The Little Brother

When not spending ‘bonding’ time with his partially absent father, Even Hyde has his run of the apartment where he more or less comes and goes as he pleases. That is, except when his older brother Gabe comes to visit on the weekends. Currently living in Cucamonga with their emotionally unstable mother, Gabe is everything that Even is not. It’s clear that of the two close brothers there is a “good” and “bad” brother: Gabe falls under the ‘bad’ category. But just how bad could he really be? Even doesn’t seem to be too frightened of Gabe’s quick-to-ignite temper or his evolving addiction to skipping school and smoking weed. 

But then Gabe commits a crime so unbelievably heinous that Even can’t forgive his own flesh and blood for it. In his dramatic recounting for The Little Brother, Even shares the events immediately following his brother and two of his friends savagely gang raping (while videotaping) an unconscious girl.  When Gabe loses the video tape (which ends up in Even’s hand) it is up to Even to make the life-changing decision: does he do the right thing and turn his own brother in to the police, or does family come first before anything else?

Victoria Patterson is the author of the novel The Peerless Four. She also wrote This Vacant Paradise, selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review. Drift, her collection of interlinked short stories, was a finalist for the California Book Award and the 2009 Story Prize. The San Francisco Chronicle selected Drift as one of the best books of 2009.

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ISBN: 9781619025387
Published: Counterpoint - August 11th, 2015