Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese, a young adult novel, is okay—certainly not, IMHO, worth the praise it has garnered. It has an interesting structure, switching around among the current present where the protagonist, Adam Farmer, is on a lengthy bike trip to see his father, interviews between Adam and a person who appears to be a psychiatrist, and the last several years of Adam's life. Through the interviews and flashbacks, it is learned that his father has done something questionable, at best. Sadly, I didn't think what he did came anywhere close to meeting what the buildup promised, but the book has an interesting time element that will keep me from completely dismissing it.
Another Cormier novel, The Rag and Bone Shop, is advertised on Cheese's last page and sounds fairly interesting. Because of the time twist in Cheese, I might give Cornier a second chance.
