Michael Kun
Auteur de We Are Still Tornadoes: A Novel
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Crédit image: by Amy Toboco
Œuvres de Michael Kun
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- Date de naissance
- 1962-11-28
- Sexe
- male
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 253
- Popularité
- #90,475
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 13
- ISBN
- 21
- Langues
- 1
It’s 1982 and Cath has gone off to college, while her neighbour/school friend Scott has stayed home to work in his dad’s clothing store. Through letters, they support each other as they deal with transitions, relationship woes and family dramas. Their letters are poignant and funny, with a running in-joke referring to a classmate’s “We Are Still Tornadoes” graduation speech. I like that they have to learn how to translate their friendship into written words, and make mistakes along the way. Their letters also believably convey what happens when they meet in-person -- sometimes it takes several letters to piece together the full story and that kept me wondering.
(My only quibble would be that it ends a bit abruptly, and I do think the authors could have found a believable way to have a letter tell us a bit more of what happens, rather than relying so much on implying. But anyway.)
Did I tell you that my dad is giving me a 10% discount off anything at the store? How cool is that? (I’m being serious. I really want to know how cool that is. I think the answer is, “Not very,” but I’m not sure.)… (plus d'informations)