Boyhood book review

Boyhood is the story of a young boy living in Cape town, South Africa and dealing with everyday teen struggles. The author's pen name is J.M Coetzee and the book is written in third person. In addition to the style being in third person the plot was dry and boring. The setting starts off in his home in Cape Town and randomly switches to scenes on his aunt and uncle's farm and his old life. J.M Coetzee really shows the difficulties he faced while growing up. The twisted one sided relationship he had with his mother, his hate for his father, and the sexual feelings for his female cousin was slightly disturbing in an intriguing way. His mother was a humble woman and loved him more then anything in the world but only got hate in return. His father was slightly emotionally abusive to his mother but softened in time. His two-faced world spun with feelings of hate and confusion of his sexual orientation. He also talks a lot about religion and how Jews and Catholics were discriminated against. Other than that the book went nowhere and didn't do anything for me. I recommend this book to teenage boys in high school. I think high school boys would relate to J.M Coetzee better than a younger crowd. I do not recommend this book to any boys under ninth grade. Girls from age 14+ would be fine reading this book but I found that it was really hard to get into this book and relate to the main character.