Pat D. (pat0814) reviewed on 11/22/2010 + 379 more book reviews

Sunset Park is an extraordinarily good book. Paul Auster has shown the vulnerabilities and strengths of damaged people living in the midst of the modern-day economic chaos, and has managed to make them likable. Miles Heller has lived with debilitating guilt for six years, estranging himself from his parents, who also ache separately and together. When Miles agrees to live in Brooklyn with three other people who are squatters in an abandoned house in Sunset Park, he reunites with Bing and meets Ellen and Alice. These four people struggle to succeed despite the "baggage" they each bring to the relationship and to the living arrangement. I loved the discussions of baseball trivia, books, authors and movies, but the ending saddened me. Ultimately, this is a book worth reading.

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