I knew I was going to love this book by the time I got to the second page. For one thing, I love characters that are always addressed by their first and last names and LaVander Peeler is just a great name. For another, I love when characters have a little catch phrase -- LaVander's is "All things considered..." It seems an appropriate catch phrase as all things really are considered in this book: race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, love.
The story is about a teenager named City Coldson and his four days with his grandma in rural Mississippi. At the center of this story are time travelers, a couple of different books called "Long Division," and a heart-breaky teen love story. Seriously, this book has everything. It is for everyone.
Pick up this book if you like:
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The story is about a teenager named City Coldson and his four days with his grandma in rural Mississippi. At the center of this story are time travelers, a couple of different books called "Long Division," and a heart-breaky teen love story. Seriously, this book has everything. It is for everyone.
Pick up this book if you like:
ðto read
I did not enjoy this one at all. The author focuses far too much on body parts and bodily functions and fluids. Characters have breath that smells like "old pork chop sandwiches," and other rancid descriptions; discussion of men's genitals goes on at length, it surprises the narrator than women have hair in their armpits, etc., etc. And that's just a very, very small sampling of the obsessive focus on body parts and functions. Where is the story here? Lost in how badly people smell, it seems. Ugh.
