Why is it a teen book? O didn’t work and the premise sounds weak here.
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It’s middle school! They are 12. Ridiculous. I find their thoughts and reactions inauthentic and side eye their sexualization. Granted, I had a sheltered upbringing, so perhaps that is affecting what I perceive as inauthenticity. And the way race is handled...oof.
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OMG, not middle school. That seems really problematic in so many ways. Is this a Hogarth Shax title?
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Yes, it is. I’m puzzled by the author choice, along with other decisions regarding New Boy.
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Oy vey. One thing Learn from Twitter is it there are almost no POC writers of young adult fiction
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Yeah, I agree with
@vicorredera. It’s super weird and bad. The setting seems to be YA, but the action is like Chevalier wrote adult characters and just decided they were sixth graders. There’s so much of this weird sexualization of the characters that just doesn’t make any sense.2 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 2 tykkäystä -
Sounds super problematic. I wonder if the publishers made her change it because YA sells so well...
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That’s a great question that I’m trying to look into. I really don’t have any idea what the editorial decisions for the Hogarth series are.
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This is a Hogarth title? V surprising.
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Yeah. I read Shylock is My Name earlier this spring, and that was also weird (again, there was strange sexualization of some younger characters). Also, both books seems to require a solid (if not intimate) knowledge of the plays to really “understand” what they’re trying to do.
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I read Vinegar Girl and Hagseed. Neither one of them had weird sexualization, thank god! Both are probematoc plays but the books worked for me.
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I’m checking both of those out too (and the rest of the current Hogarth titles). I’m hoping there’s some improvement from New Boy.
0 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 2 tykkäystäKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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