![]() ![]() ![]() The premise - one that can be adequately summed up as “teenage boy goes to New York to visit his sister for a summer, lies to a girl about being a trans, gets girl to fall in love with him even though she likes girls hilarity ensues” - had me staring at the back cover for a few minutes, wondering what I was getting myself into. ![]() Then there’s Adam by Ariel Schrag, the debut novel by the cartoonist and television writer who has taken the bildungsroman route before to great results and acclaim with her graphic novels, Definition and Awkward. How badly has that literary vehicle broken down? Sure, there have been a few bright spots in the last few years, but the post-Holden Caulfield coming-of-age crop hasn’t yielded too much to write home about, possibly because as technology advances and we become more disconnected from each other, teenagers become more and more difficult for adults to write about or even understand than ever before. With all the recent talk about adults reading books written specifically for teenagers, maybe it’s time to shift the conversation to books about teenagers written for a predominantly adult audience. ![]()
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