This is not even remotely the case with Atticus Lish's profoundly affecting novel "The War for Gloria."
From its hypnotic opening pages, we find ourselves in the sure hands of a roaming omniscient narrator, one who knows intimately the beating hearts of its two central characters: Gloria, a young single mother, and Corey, her only child, a boy who shows a passion for sailing from studying books. "Corey showed his mom the islands on the map, Boa Vista and Santiago off the coast of Senegal, telling her that he'd be sailing here someday when he grew up and went to sea," Lish writes. Leonard's presence soon becomes sinister, yet he is a fully realized character, just one of many here. There is Tom Hibbard, a "Tin knocker," and his daughter, Molly, one of Corey's classmates, for whom he pines. All of this is captured by a passionate narrative voice that has clearly been around, one that intimately knows not only the rigors of confined combat in a cage fight but also the bruised and hungry heart of a woman yearning to fulfill her potential before she dies. At the core of "The War for Gloria" is the unforgettable character of Corey, a young man who is left to care for his dying mother alone, a boy who is hurled into the hard streets to find his solitary way.
With this, only his second novel, Lish has not only created a work of enduring art, he has distinguished himself as one of our finest writers.
source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/atticus-lish-war-for-gloria.html
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