A review by kiwi_fruit
The Brotherhood of the Grape by John Fante

2.0

The beginning felt like watching an episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond”, but soon you realise that the family relationships are dysfunctional (there are similarities between Nick and Giacinto in Scola’s “Brutti, sporchi e cattivi” movie which was released a year before the book).
The writing is fine but I ended up disliking all the characters.

Spoiler

I got tired of all the drama, the drinking, the sex and the plain bad taste.

I forced myself to finish the book as it was part of a reading challenge. Looks like Fante is not for me. 1.5 stars.