![]() Yup: it's coming of age, it's coming of GAYge, it's a Bildungsroman, a novel of development, it's all of these things, none of these things, and perhaps this listing is growing tedious. The way a mountain-toppling earthquake that happened some thirty years before keeps aftershocking our hero: Cameron Post. The compulsive renting and watching of 99 cent videos. A Victorian dollhouse with all kinds of weird shit glued to it. Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Keeping O'Connor's words in mind, here are some notes on the novel's "aboutness":ĭead parents. ![]() When anyone asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell him to read the story." You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. In her useful (and wholly quotable) book on craft, Mystery & Manners, Flannery O'Connor wrote: "A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word of the story to say what the meaning is. ![]()
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