It took me a while to get to this book after Book Movement sent me the Advance Reader edition, but I rather enjoyed it. Very well written. Gary Hazen is an ass. Even though (no spoiler) negative events happen late in the book, he's still an ass. He's so stuck on how his vision of life is the only right one that he severely damages his relationships with his sons. It takes a good writer for me to be this annoyed by a character -- if he didn't write so well, I wouldn't care enough to be annoyed.