I’m only about 34% of my way through the book (I’ve had it for 4 weeks and it’s due tomorrow), but there are a couple things in the book that infuriate me.
Mike’s best friend (?) Nick. He’s misogynistic, homophobic (uses the f slur) and racist (especially towards people from Mexico). Mike calls him out on it several times, but he continues to be a hateful person. Mike describes him as basically family though:
“I'm not defending Nick, exactly. It's just that no matter what a narrow-minded dickhead he is, he's family. All these years, I've had no choice but to accept him, in spite of his bigotry and shallowness and willful ignorance. No matter how deep the infection runs, family is family. The only other choice is to cut them off like rotten limbs.”