After doing probation and community service for his crime, Leo decides his senior year will be different, and so begins the tale. Don’t worry, you do conveniently find out at the very end and it was overwhelmingly bad, though I intuitively guessed pretty early on.ĭue to the stress of his perfect brother’s death, Leo goes mental, ends up institutionalized (at what, like 11?), then makes other bad choices and gets arrested for carrying drugs (for another kid he won’t tattle on) at a party when he’s 16-ish. It’s not clear at first how very young Leo’s brother was when he committed suicide (he was only 10) and there is no information given as to why such a young, easy-going kid would be driven to make such a dramatic choice.
The story begins with the suicide of Leo’s older, much more attractive, salt-of-the-earth, altar-boy brother. Old-fashioned southern city with interesting neighborhoods and locals, check. Strange menagerie of friends and/or relatives, check. I guess that’s really the problem with South of Broad, I feel like I’ve already read it.
I’ve read some, but not all of his books and I did enjoy The Prince of Tides. I’ve liked Pat Conroy for a long time I remember my mom reading The Great Santini at the beach one summer when I was little and laughing with her as she read aloud the part about the guys “throwing up” mushroom soup.
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