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This is an amazing novel. It is very difficult to get into because of the thick prose-poetry. (Often, there is parenthetical material, (sometimes with more parenthetical materical nested inside other parenthetical material.)) But the use of language is dazzling: thick, dense swirling prose-poetry of a young boy in a poor family, who (unlike everyone else) has a creative mind and a desire to escape.We have several narrative voices telling us about one poor family's life in a tiny town in East Texas. The principal narrator has an extraordinary vocabulary that might send you to the dictionary. Other narrators are his poorly-educated relatives, so their wordchoice is folksy and quaint. The most interesting narrator is, quite unexpectedly, the nearby river, which talks back to the main narrator.There is a lot of pent-up sexuality in these pages. Everyone is frustrated. One uncle ran off with a traveling circus and pursued a gay life. One married man never consummated his marriage with his child-bride. The narrator clearly has desires, but can't act upon them, perhaps because it's such a tiny town, the kind of town with no secrets.But it is the evocation of nature that is stunning. (Annie Dilliard WISHES she could write this kind of dazzling "I see and comprehend every aspect of nature in my neck of the woods" prose!) Once I realized the prose was not totally unreadable (after about 6 pages), I started relishing the many inventive Proustian flourishes, the gorgeous phrases, the glorious philosophy of the interconnected web of family, nature, life, and escape.If you want a serious literary experience, this is it!