I have to be honest and say that by the time I was half way through this one, I really didn't care to get the answer to the questions in the title (What Happened).

Our narrator, who is unnamed, shares the story of what happened late one wintery evning after a party as he and his friends were driving around drunk. In the process, they end up hitting a man and running away on foot.

The telling is quite episodic as the narrator repeatedly looks back on his life to share stories about the various characters in the book such as his brother Kyle, Kyle's girlfriend Emily, and Emily's arrogant brother and the driver.

When Kyle decided to make sure that the truth comes out about the hit-and-run accident, the families are driven apart in quite the predictable manner. It is no surprise when their is a showdown later in the story.

While the writing is rich and almost feels like a series of poems, the presentation is very disturbing, making it difficult for the reader to fully engage the tale since he or she is jumping back and forth in time about every other page. For me, it almost felt like this started as a pretty good short story, but someone thought it needed to be long so they injected a lot of backstory and sprinkled it in throughout the narrative.

I had trouble finishing this one, which is not a good thing since I am like "Mikey" in the old Chex commercials. I generally like everything. The fact that the book is just under 140 pages and should have been a quick and easy read for me.