A review by atcucchetti
We the Animals by Justin Torres

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

 Pick this especially if you want to be awash in first person sensory moments. The feel of a pack of siblings celebrating the joys and wants and confusion of childhood while the realities of poverty and societal indifference lurk and hunger just beyond the edge of understanding. I didn’t read this book. I experienced it. So viscerally real are the descriptions of brotherly antics, childhood love, and the complicated feelings of otherness. 

This is Why I Read. My personal experience couldn’t have been more different from the character in this book, and yet. So much of it rang true and resonated for me as the only girl in a collection of three siblings. Be prepared. The emotional end arrives hard and fast leaving you deep in your feels.