The Memory of Running - Ron McLarty

Smithy Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds. He's got a daft job in a factory, in his spare time he's mostly at home in front of the telly, boozing, chain-smoking and eating himself to death. He's turned into the 'f*** fat-ass slob' his elder sister Bethany had warned him he'd become when he was in his early twenties. When both his parents die in a car accident, he returns home for the funeral to East Providence, Rhode Island. Going through their mail he finds a letter from the Coroner's Office for the County of Los Angeles from which he learns that Bethany, who went missing more than 20 years ago, has died there. He has a look into his parents' garage ...  Read the complete review