A review by softandcrunchy
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

4.0

A fantastic exploration of childhood that doesn't flinch at those dark, swirling, confused thoughts and emotions that are our companions from such a young age.  Dislocation, shame, failure. The constant pull between wanting and rejection that is the human condition, but laid bare through the mind of a child that is every child. 
I love the way he positions this brutality of the mind alongside the harsh and threatening landscape of apartheid South Africa.