Okay, wow, what to say? This book was...intense. I honestly am not sure what to think about this book. Aaaaahhhhh.Céce and Mack's relationship seemed just a bit unhealthy to me. But it also seemed loving.I don't like the ending though. I just am kind of torn. I want to really like this book, but ...
I’m enough of a cynic these days to greet reference to the theme of inner beauty with an eye roll. In my experience, much of the messaging around the nature of true beauty is either trite or saccharine and comes with generous helpings of condescension or overt moralising. I need another “lesson” ...
Lorentz wasn’t at the front desk, so that was good at least. Halley’s notebooks and sparkle pens were spread all over the table like an exploded rainbow. Black beret today. Glaring green eyes for just a second and then no time for me. “This is me not talking to you,” she said. &...
. . (Sunday, August 16, just after midnight) MACK: The gnats are chewing at us. But if I close the window, we’ll roast. Thirty-odd hours in the bathroom. We’re staring at each other. Boo licks my face with his extra-long tongue. It hangs out of his mouth three inches when he sleeps. He pees on...
José could wait another goddam month or so for his Ninja. ‘Round Face. You’re early.’ Jerry looked out into his lot. ‘Where’s the ride?’ ‘Yeah, um, about that. We don’t wanna do it.’ Jerry frowned. ‘Well, you’re gonna do it anyway.’ ‘Look man, I came here out of courtesy—’ ‘No, you came because y...
. . . While Mik was in the bathroom Fatima studied a free Spanish paper. Articles were translated into English on the opposite page. Fatima taught herself the language as she hunted for news from the east. Word of Africa’s troubles had dropped from print for the most part, at least from the rag F...
