A review by brits_got_books
In Hoboken by Christian Bauman

3.0

I definitely agree that this novel deserves to be in the company of the highly-acclaimed "High Fidelity" I thought there was a great story and the author managed to juggle the stories of the several main characters very well. I did have a few issues, though. There were times were it seemed they wrote the wrong name in--for example, using Mona when they meant Alice. And I would have preferred a little more into Thatcher's and James' lives. For example, with Thatcher being in the army and have an ex-fiancee--it seemed a bit rushed and wasn't brought up a lot after the beginning of the book. How did this affect him mentally? Did it really all come down to his relationship--or lack thereof--with his mother?

Definitely an intriguing read and I felt he did well with a lot of the characters' story lines.