Expensive People

Joyce Carol Oates really knows how to start a novel.  She begins this book with the narrator saying that they are a child murderer meaning that they are a child who does murders.  This book shows the character as he goes to private school and his home life.  Joyce Carol Oates decides to include a short story in the middle of the book which I thought came across as a bit awkward and showed less focus on the novel itself.  The specific murder did come across as somewhat of a surprise for me although I should have seen it coming.  I’m more impressed by her short stories but I’m going to read more of her early novels.