I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.
Per Petterson
Book Review: Per Petterson’s “It’s Fine By Me” — A Sensitive Tale of a Lost Boy
“It’s Fine By Me” is the story of so many lost boys in literature, who run, who rebel, who are crushed, or luckily find their way.