A review by zadel
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

4.0

I was accustomed to thinking of my real life existing in some distant place or future time, projecting forward in a way that I was afraid might keep me from living fully where I was.

Everytime that I stumble upon a rich contemporary novel, I feel myself falling for the genre over and over again and truth be told, it had been a long while since the last time that I had read a contemporary as beautiful and as touching as [b: What Belongs to You|22929602|What Belongs to You|Garth Greenwell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1447384662l/22929602._SX50_.jpg|42499130].
Every aspect of this book from the narrative to the characters and even to the atmosphere -which is seldom paid much attention to in literary fiction- was absolutely excellent, well-thought and truly humane.
This book was [a: Garth Greenwell|4774349|Garth Greenwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449012095p2/4774349.jpg] debut novel and I have to say *cough* sir, you've already set the bars WAY TOO HIGH! (Not that I'm complaining tho)

He had always been alone, I thought, gazing at a world in which he had never found a place and that was now almost perfectly indifferent to him; he was incapable even of disturbing it, of making a sound it could be bothered to hear.