Honesty

Honesty is something that Mr. Gantos does very, very well in his fiction.  And I am assuming that his nonfiction is very honest as well.  What Gantos has to say about himself in his two autobiographical books, A Hole in My Life from 2002  and The Trouble in Me from this year is painful.  He doesn't hold back on his evaluation of himself and what led him to do the things that he did as a young boy and then, as a young adult, leading to his arrest for drug smuggling.
I couldn't love Gantos any more if I tried.  What a remarkable author.  What a remarkable man.