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The Call-Out
by Cat Fitzpatrick
The first bit of this book seems aimed at an extremely specific audience: promiscuous, disaffected, young people in NYC. Like everyone else can read the words but won't get much of the context and references.
Fortunately, that doesn't last long. Soon you are following several very distinctive and interesting characters through their interactions and relationships, hook-ups, misinterpretations, regrets, so much to digest!
The tribulations are a lot like what every group of young people might go through, except that the author continually shows us how much harder it is to navigate your life when you are simultaneously having to deal with your most basic concept of your identity shifting around under you. And when most of society either hates you or just finds you inconvenient.
The one central controversy is very good indeed, and draws us in, making us feel just how small the community is, and thus how important it is that they navigate this without breaking into estranged cliques. When the showdown that interests everyone can be held in a single apartment living room, it is plain that nobody there has the luxury of choosing peer groups.
The story is so interesting that you soon forget it's being told in rhyme, except when an occasional unusual word or odd sentence order draws your attention to it.
Fortunately, that doesn't last long. Soon you are following several very distinctive and interesting characters through their interactions and relationships, hook-ups, misinterpretations, regrets, so much to digest!
The tribulations are a lot like what every group of young people might go through, except that the author continually shows us how much harder it is to navigate your life when you are simultaneously having to deal with your most basic concept of your identity shifting around under you. And when most of society either hates you or just finds you inconvenient.
The one central controversy is very good indeed, and draws us in, making us feel just how small the community is, and thus how important it is that they navigate this without breaking into estranged cliques. When the showdown that interests everyone can be held in a single apartment living room, it is plain that nobody there has the luxury of choosing peer groups.
The story is so interesting that you soon forget it's being told in rhyme, except when an occasional unusual word or odd sentence order draws your attention to it.