Book Review: "Expensive People" by Joyce Carol Oates

The first sentence in this book is:

"I was a child murderer."  How can you go wrong with a book that starts like that--particularly one written by Joyce Carol Oates.

It is a confessional book about a man who killed someone when he was a child.  It is everything that lead up to the murder.  It is hard to imagine that the writer wasn't the actual killer--that's how good she wrote this book.

It gets a little slow in the middle, but toward the end--the murder--it becomes riveting.  I can't wait to tell Sarah about it.