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Josh
took the never-ending book quiz.
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Jonathan Evison's newest book "All About Lulu" is the one of those brilliant coming of age novels that make you agonize and adore everything about maturity. The story's narrator Will is a characters who is not beautiful or extraordinary. However he is incredibly real and every page in the book has Will slapping the reader in the face or making him fall out of their chair laughing (and occasionally weeping).
I was given the book as a gift as I had not heard of it before. I cannot explain how much I enjoyed what I found in these pages. It is a quick and fun read where the authors wit and writing style seriously make you not want to give up the book for the night.
This is what makes Evison's work so wonderful. Far too many times stories of this genre are cutesy or depressing tales of change and survival, in "All About Lulu" we ignore this myopic worldview. Here a glimmer of the light is shined on the absurdity of growing up. Will has to constantly battle with himself in determining the line between obsession and adoration.
This battle takes us on a young man's journey to learning everything about himself and about love of life. To discuss that journey here would be a great disservice to you, because the power of this story is revealed as it opens before you. And now review should take that from you. ]]>
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