Goodreads Summary
The powerful account of one writer's
unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle
club in one of America's most dangerous cities.
Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and
Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island
elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of
each other. Decades later, when they met again, Abramovich was a writer and
Latham had become President of the East Bay Rats, a motorcycle club in Oakland.
In 2010, Abramovich moved to
California to immerse himself in Latham's world - one of fight clubs,
booze-filled nights, and beat-downs on the city's streets. But dangerous,
dysfunctional Oakland was also becoming one of America's most rapidly
gentrifying cities, and the questions Abramovich had arrived with were thrown
into brutal relief: How do we live with the burden of violence? How do we
overcome it? Do we overcome it?
As Trevor, the Rats, and the city they live in careen
between crises and moments of renaissance, Abramovich explores issues of
friendship, family, history, and destiny - and looks at what happens when those
things fail. Bullies is at once a vivid, visceral narrative of an
unusual friendship and an incisive portrait of a beautiful, terrible city.
My Thoughts
I didn’t particularly enjoy this book. It wasn’t necessarily bad, it just wasn’t my
cup of tea, I guess. When I read the
description of this book I was intrigued.
I ended up a bit disappointed, though, because there really wasn’t
enough about their actual friendship. It
started as though that’s what the entire book would be about but towards the
middle we kind of lost that storyline.
It was brought back together in the end but it wasn’t enough to make me
like the book. There was some interesting information about the history of
Oakland and things like that but it just wasn’t what I was expecting to read
about.
I didn’t completely hate it, but I really didn’t love
it. I don’t think I can even say that I
liked it. That makes me sad… I want to
be able to love all books. This didn’t
receive a great rating from me. Sorry
*Note: I received a copy of this book from the publisher
in exchange for an honest review.
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