English language
Published Nov. 18, 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Small town teenage summer before the internet, feeling like an outsider in a place that is the same as everywhere else and always a half-beat in the past, making something weird and making something out of nothing, and holding on to that for feeling alive. At half-way I wondered, and the story pulled on ahead where it needed to go.
What a storyteller Kevin Wilson is. Everything in its right place. As a reader, you can just flow along.
3.25, rounding to 4 because I like coming of age stories about misfits who find their thing. While I enjoyed this book, I didn't feel deeply connected to any of the characters. There were some fun and clever moments, and some sentences that really showcase Wilson's skill as a writer. My challenge is that I still felt arms-length to the players, rather than fully immersed in their story.
