Joe Kessler’s Reviews > Game Changer > Status Update

Oh good, at least the boyfriend (/narrative?) calls him out on it. But it still feels like we're glossing past that way too easily.

So much of this novel is just absurdly tone-deaf. Your boyfriend tells you he's going to come out soon so you might want to distance yourself if you don't want to get outed... so you call everyone's attention to yourself in the crowded cafeteria and kiss him? That's not a romantic gesture; it's a theft of his moment to decide when and how to come out himself.

"Turns out it was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. The perfect day for my 'special customers' to repent from their drug habit." Ugh. I know Shusterman is Jewish, but... no.

Why would you tell a white teenage boy he's the literal center of the universe?

So much whitesplaining.

This dude is really self-centered and oblivious.