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Infinite in Between
by Carolyn Mackler
It’s not about the big stuff. This idea has come up in a couple things I’ve read/listened to/watched recently. About how we focus on these big moments in our lives – The guy holding the boombox over his head blasting Peter Gabriel – And forget about the boring moments that tie everything together – The ride beside each other on the bus (yeah, yeah, I know I’m mixing movies) silent because we don’t know what to say. Those in between moments are what solidify our relationships. They are the measure of what we’re made of. How we react after the big moments are gone. Nestled on the couch over a Netflix marathon or doing the dishes or making time each other – those are the cement.
Mackler’s novel follows five teens from the time they enter high school to their graduation. Five mostly regular kids, each with their own big moments and many more small moments. The kids meet on the first day of grade nine, assigned to the same group and tasked with coming up with a freshman project. Their group decides each person will write a letter to their future self and meet again on graduation day to read the letters. And from their they go on with their lives.
Of course, the group has five dynamically different characters that will have little opportunity for overlap during their schooling. They will not be friends. We’ve got got The Breakfast Club, let’s be honest. But where the two differ is that following five divergent personalities for a couple hours over the course of day is very different from following five povs for four years. The book almost gets there. Almost. But there’s something missing. Or a little too much. You never feel that thing that clicks and makes you really need to know a character. You never get enough of any one character. We get too many characters. If this had been dropped down to four and each character fleshed out a little bit more… maybe that’s the thing.
Full review at https://hellphiesfiendishfiction.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/infinite-in-between-by-carolyn-mackler-carolynmackler/
Mackler’s novel follows five teens from the time they enter high school to their graduation. Five mostly regular kids, each with their own big moments and many more small moments. The kids meet on the first day of grade nine, assigned to the same group and tasked with coming up with a freshman project. Their group decides each person will write a letter to their future self and meet again on graduation day to read the letters. And from their they go on with their lives.
Of course, the group has five dynamically different characters that will have little opportunity for overlap during their schooling. They will not be friends. We’ve got got The Breakfast Club, let’s be honest. But where the two differ is that following five divergent personalities for a couple hours over the course of day is very different from following five povs for four years. The book almost gets there. Almost. But there’s something missing. Or a little too much. You never feel that thing that clicks and makes you really need to know a character. You never get enough of any one character. We get too many characters. If this had been dropped down to four and each character fleshed out a little bit more… maybe that’s the thing.
Full review at https://hellphiesfiendishfiction.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/infinite-in-between-by-carolyn-mackler-carolynmackler/