Brian Bloome’s new book about his upbringing isn’t easy, but it is compelling TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | Bookworm Sezbookwormsez@yahoo.com Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir, by Brian Broome. © 2021, HMH Books $26; 272 pages.Little kids have it so easy. Somebody feeds them when they’re hungry, does their laundry, buys them toys and plays with them.
Somebody escorts them everywhere, and, sometimes, they even get carried. Yep, life is good when you’re a little kid — except, as in the new memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome, when it’s not.
He called Corey his “best friend.” but Corey was no friend to 10-year-old Brian Broome. Sure, things were sympatico at first, but it didn’t take long for Corey to sense Broome’s insecurities.