Title: Learning to Let Go
Product review: Greg Bills' novel Consider This Home explores what makes a home and a family within the context of late 20th Century Mormon Utah. The answers are unexpected and seldom reached easily - indeed, the stakes in this book are high ones: fidelity, faith, life, death. Some characters in this book long for the past, where, they seem to suggest, everything was simpler and everyone had his or her place. Bill's novel challenges that interpretation of the past and presents a a terrifying but ultimately affirming vision of the present which is neither Mormon nor heathen, gay nor straight.But what happens? A single mother, raising her young son in glitzy Las Vegas gets a phone at work. Amid the sounds of the casino, her aunt's voice tells her, "Come home. Your father's got the gun out." And we're off.Bills shifts between the points of view with ease and story unfolds masterfully and with surprising suspense.
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