Sep 18, 2015
Book Review: Broken Dreamer by H. Dhillon
This little beauty can be read in an hour or two, and it’s entirely worth it. Throughout the narrative, I found myself making comparisons to films like Family Man, Lord of War, and American Beauty; Dhillon gracefully captures the narrator’s cognitive dissonance as his grief, self-loathing, and broken dreams contend with his last-ditch efforts to be the good man his family sees.
Every character felt human, earnest, and real. Everything about the conclusion felt inevitable, even poetic in a bitter way. Wall Street corruption is virtually its own living, breathing force of evil, and the narrator shows us how, almost effortlessly, repetitive deliberate inaction allows such inhumanity to win.