I tried to get into this book, but couldn’t. I found the writing too erratic, and the depiction of mental illness too unbelievable. A psychiatrist who calls her patients “crazy”? Really?
Maybe it gets really good, but I couldn’t read more than 25%.

Well, this book was a pleasant surprise. The many topics covered are difficult topics on their own, however, as unconventional as the writing is in this book, author Kos Kostmayer did a wonderful job moving through each one.
Topics include: mental illness, mixed race relationships, racism, drug and alcohol addiction, child abuse, poverty, suicide, promiscuity and death.

Fargo Burns has a mental illness, A serious mental illness that lands him in a psychiatric facility barking like a dog.
He eventually becomes well enough for discharge, but his marriage is over. He rents a room, goes on welfare, and attempts to work out visitation with his wife for his two children, and get a job. This is his journey.

The characters are colorful, vibrant. Fargo is a prime example a mind that fractures when being a human being, a man in today's world, becomes too much for him. The voices follow him everywhere. His drug and alcohol use does not help. We go on a journey through his childhood, through portions of his family history, through his mental illness, and his relationships with friends, family, psychiatrist, and lovers.

I highly recommend this book. The format is a bit hard to finagle, if your willing to give it a go, it is very much worth it.

Thanks to NetGalley, the Publisher, and Kos Kostmayer for an ARC in return for an honest review.

This was such a weird read, like nothing I've ever read before. There was so much going on, too much really, that I found it a little over whelming. While Fargo's past experience in the mental hospital if fodder enough for any novel, so too is his affair with the hitman's girlfriend. I don't think the busy background of the Vietnam was called for in this storyline. Politics, history, race and sex are all brought to the forefront in this complicated tale that sees Fargo move from thinking he is a dog to falling in love and committing an act of serious violence. It was certainly a thought provoking read but I did get a little lost at times. It was interesting though.

FARGO BURNS is a novel about a man, Fargo Burns, who has a mental breakdown and hears voices in his head. I really liked the unique premise and this book was definitely an interesting read but the dialogue could get confusing sometimes. It was a blur in some parts to tell what was real but that was probably the point.