More than that, though, a book about teenagers written for and by adults needs to tread carefully don’t make them too mature, don’t make them too childlike. In a book for an adult audience, the teenage years make sense when written as somewhat of a fever dream. Even just three years out of my teenage years, I already feel like it is decades away. But in a way, that makes them all the more real. The main characters are unbelievable - they’re just written a little too wildly to really ring true. Everything repeats,’” to which Teal replies, “‘So time is timeless?’” They are often dropping nuggets of wisdom as they do decidedly unwise (and often illegal) things. They come to great realizations about life in the most mundane ways - Kody says, “‘When the hands of a clock reach the end, they just swing around again. But they also mourn and cry and are confused and aimless. Kody and Teal visit Graceland, they swim in the Pacific, they go to county fairs. This dispels any glamorous expectations the reader might have had and points them towards something darker.īud Smith manages to capture the innocence and idiocy of teenagerdom, while showing that trauma can make people grow up too fast. Their escape was never going to be just any old road trip, because it started with a double homicide. Kody and Teal aren’t boy- or girl-next-door types. Right from the beginning, this book warns you that it won’t fall into those tropes, and if it does, you’re right to be suspicious. Their stories, both individual and intertwined, are sad from the very beginning, tinged with just enough desperation that “leaving it all behind” seems a little more plausible than it does for the rest of us.Īt first, from its description on the back, I was worried this novel was going to be another rose-colored-glasses, romanticized-open-road, driving-with-the-windows-down epic, with a rambling plot and long descriptions of the pastoral beauty of America. Within the first 20 pages, Kody breaks out of juvie, kills both of Teal’s parents and steals a car. He’s in love with Teal, a girl abused by her father. Kody is a foster kid who escaped from a juvenile detention center.
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It is a romp through the crisscrossing American highways and equally twisted minds of two teenagers, Kody and Teal. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates.“Teenager” by Bud Smith encapsulates the specific and peculiar feeling of what if I just drove off, away from my life, with no real destination? stretched out for nearly 400 pages. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Year should not be greater than current year If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo. You can still file a request but no one will be notified.
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