"emotional and thought provoking"
In this new book by Robert Edward Levin and Steve J. Weiss,
Damion and Travis Face are forced to make choices that no
one should have to. ABOUT FACE is written in a flashback
style. It goes from present to past and back again in a
smooth fashion. Travis is a senior in high school who's goal is to graduate
and get himself and his younger brother out of Harrison
Kentucky. Since the very untimely death of their mother
when they were young boys, their lives have been anything
but smooth. Their father, wrapped up in yet another
untimely loss of a loved one, has undergone a drastic
personality change. Unfortunately for the Face brothers their father has decided
to take his unhappiness out on them. The story that follows
is not an easy one to read. The authors take a delicate
storyline and handle it with an appropiate amount of
description, but without the vulgarity that would make a
reader want to quit reading. It is because of Travis' own life that when he starts
volunteering in an elementary school, he is able to
immediately spot another troubled soul. It becomes Travis'
life mission to save Lincoln Calloway from the fate that has
befallen Travis and Damion. Travis and Damion use all their very limited resources to
save "Linc" as they call him. Unfortunately for the Face
brothers this is not an easy path, and the results are not
what they had hoped for. For Linc, however, the results are
better than he could have hoped. ABOUT FACE is emotional and thought provoking. Readers will
find themselves wondering what decisions and actions they
would take when faced with the same situations as the Face
brothers. For Travis, Damion, and Linc the path of life is
not a smooth one, but one with many bumps. Each of the
bumps along the way has turned them into who or what they
are today. The story ending may not be the one most readers
would exactly want, but the one I found to be most fitting.
Reviewed by Sandi Shilhanek
Posted March 20, 2003
It's a coming-of-age-story, but more than that
it touches on love, loss, redemption, sacrifice, etc.
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