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The Bottom of the Sky Review"You think a family means more than people in it? If one might kill the other one, which one would you save, Geno?"
William Pack's novel, "The Bottom of the Sky" poses this question early on... ...and answers it in such a way--two ways, actually--that I am lost for the proper word. Brilliant? No. That's on the dust cover. `page turner?' No, that's on the dust cover too. Timely? Well, yeah, but that's on the dust cover. Powerful? Poignant? Naw. People in the know already said that and were stunned.
Stunned. That's it. That's me at the end.
Stunned. Stunning. Stunning. The thesaurus has no suitable synonym for that.
I lost count of the places I wanted to savor again. On page 314, nearly two thirds of the way through, I started taking notes: "... his guts were processing a ball of nails."
You don't get this kind of writing just anywhere; hardly ever in a debut novel.
Page 320: "...I lose this, I become them." Levi's struggle in six words. Page 346: "I don't want my world to contract until I'm all that counts to me." His fear. He was on the way, too. Almost becoming all that counts to himself--much, much earlier, in the parts before I started taking notes.
In chapter 41, I wanted to jump through the book so I could personally strangle Dierdre, whom I started thinking of as `Devildre' because she was so... so... evil.
So read the book. You're a fool if you don't.
You'll be a fool not because you'll miss the word-choices, the rich, rich language few novelists dream of on their best day, even if they have a superb editor like Pack does. Not because you won't find your guts processing nails. Not because you won't confront yourself where you don't want to go in the darkest region of your fear. Or your hopes either, for that matter. And by the way, not because you won't find out what's really, really important in life: It's not the corner office.
Read this book for the education you'll get while you're doing all that.
You'll learn what caused the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Sound familiar? Recent? I never really understood it until I read "The Bottom of the Sky." William Pack explains it all in terms that will make you seethe even if you think 'sub-prime' is some kind of meat.
Bernie Madoff-like shenanigans on Wall Street: You'll come to understand the culture that makes such things possible in the financial world. The culprits are all here, in "The Bottom of the Sky."
"The Bottom of The Sky" sort of begins and ends in Two Dot, Montana. It's a real place. I've been there. It has a bank, and a hardware store, both vacant, both ghosts of something that never should have been. And a few die-hard residents who don't realize that the whole damn town is a ghost. Two Dot, Montana. Look it up on Yahoo Maps or Google Earth. It's a real place, all right. Real close to the Crazy Mountains--the bottom of the sky.
Young Levi grows up in Roundup, Montana, which is just down the road a piece from Two Dot. His mother collects dryer lint. If you don't shed a tear when you find out what she does with it, you have no heart. Don't hold your breath. You won't find out until the end, nearly.
Levi's the sort of kid who visualizes answers to complex mathematical problems without working it out on paper. As a young man he takes this prodigy--and a wife--with him to the financial world where he works his way up in the mythical firm of Bookman Stuart Securities on the sheer strength of his intellect. Those closest to Levi love him for his honesty and integrity, but some of his Ivy League coworker-superiors-competitors hate his success even though it's making them rich too. Some of them want to stab him in the back for it and take it all for themselves.
Levi brings common sense and honor to his job, but he pays a heavy price. You'll have to read the book to find out just how heavy it really is.
If you do read it, you'll be rewarded by a new understanding of human nature, of human greed, of human love. On top of all that you'll understand what's going on in the financial world at this very moment in time. You'll get an education on that.
William Pack should know. He was there. In Two Dot, and on Wall Street.
"Kill the firm, save the planet." That's one of the answers. There's another. Maybe you'll find a superlative for 'stunning' and write your own review.
Get this book and read it. Then wait until William Pack comes up with another. It will be a blockbuster, because everyone will know him by then.
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