A review by emilyrose72
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

1.0

This is the story of teenage Jack Gantos in 1971. He's a teenager aspiring to be a novelist, and tries to get himself out of his current situation to an opportunity to go to school. The opportunity arises when he agrees to be a part of shipping one ton of drugs to New York for $10,000. The story is of his experience and how he got caught. I did not enjoy the book because I found it uninspiring and promoting the wrong values. Gantos never expresses regret for being apart of the drugs, just for getting caught. He does turn his life around, so it has a happy ending, but I didn't find the story compelling or worth my time.