This is surely a charming first novel by
Hannah Tinti. Hero in her story is a 12-year-old named Ren. He lived in the Saint
Anthony's
orphanage from the day he was dropped off at night when he was an infant. Every few months, Ren and his buddies use to line up for someone who might want to adopt a child or want to buy a cheap laborer. These boys knew that if they do not get adopted by neighborhood farmers they will eventually be consigned to the national army and face certain death. But who would want to adopt or buy a one-handed child? Ren's plight in this story is creaky with sentimentality; at the same time Tinti knows how to keep her balance. Before the author finishes describing about the little collection of stolen objects and muted despair from Ren, anyone would have wanted to sign the adoption papers.
At last, someone does come for him, as he's always dreamed about. His brother Benjamin Nab, who was lost long ago and has been looking for Ren from the day their father took them to a refugee place. Benjamin tells the priest about how their small family was attacked by Indians and how Ren's mother accidentally chopped off his hand in a heat of combat. Also how he saved his baby brother and passed him along to travelers, so that he can go back to exact revenge on the Indians. Actually, nothing about Benjamin's tale is true, but the adventure begins at this point. Ren suspects he has been adopted under the false pretenses of Benjamin, and the worse begins as they leave Saint Anthony's orphanage. Ren learns that Benjamin picked him because he is handicap thinking he was the proper person for his new guardian's treacle lie games. For the sake of courtesy Benjamin repeats the story of their mother and the cruel Indians. But sooner or latter Ren realizes the truth and falls in dilemma about his future.
Author never lets the reader relax, even though the absurdities stack up delightfully. Before both the so called brothers arrive at the grim, a correctly named town of North Umbrage, the novel grows both ominous and more humorous. Entire city is dominated by a mousetrap factory, which is staffed by a great army of young women. Benjamin is pretty nervous about settling here, but he cannot resist the grave-robbing opportunity which gives a way to an even richer trade in dead bodies in the local research hospital. His so called brother Ren finds all this terrifying but thinks they are done for a good reason. Last thing he wants most in the world is a family, and slowly he cobbles with the one that includes a friendly giant whose talent lies in murdering people. He is a suspicious dwarf who lives on the roof and a tone voiced lonely deaf woman who keeps on yelling at them constantly.
Until the end of the book, the reader can never come to know nothing more than Ren is doing about what's happening. But the story is deeply serious about Ren who is realizing to do what's right even when everyone around him is engaged in one or the other sort of criminal activity. Before the story is all over, reader can get excited by some shocking murders and last-minute escapes. Still the most enjoyable thing in the novel is watching the author view all the crazy elements together with poor boy Ren's destiny.
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