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A review by katieinca
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
5.0
Field hockey team in the '80s makes a deal with darkness in the form of an Emilio Estevez notebook, so yeah, I expected this to be odd. I didn't expect it to be this funny, or how occasionally S### Gets Real. I actually highlighted in this (Kindle) book because I loved the humor that much. Mostly it's hard to excerpt because it's funnier w/ setup and knowing the characters, but to give you a small taste:
"As if the thing we feared most in the whole wide world was nipping at our heels. Wolves. Spiders. Cockroaches. Snakes. Opprobrium."
"Today like a guinea pig she was happily munching away on celery, only instead of eating a few pre-cut sticks the way a normal person would, she was holding an entire bunch on her lap and ripping off the stalks, then eating them one by one including the leaves. You had to hand it to her. The amount of green fibers stuck in her teeth was impressive. The next time she went to the bathroom she could’ve probably shit a sweater."
I did *not* love the tidy sweetness and "ooh, look at all our successful careers and parenting" of the ending chapter, but I can live with it.
"As if the thing we feared most in the whole wide world was nipping at our heels. Wolves. Spiders. Cockroaches. Snakes. Opprobrium."
"Today like a guinea pig she was happily munching away on celery, only instead of eating a few pre-cut sticks the way a normal person would, she was holding an entire bunch on her lap and ripping off the stalks, then eating them one by one including the leaves. You had to hand it to her. The amount of green fibers stuck in her teeth was impressive. The next time she went to the bathroom she could’ve probably shit a sweater."
I did *not* love the tidy sweetness and "ooh, look at all our successful careers and parenting" of the ending chapter, but I can live with it.