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I found this a slow burn of a book, the setting of 17 year olds at a New York art school living a seemingly impossibly grown up life that was a universe away from 17 year old me rattling around Baldock took a lot for me to form a connection.
But what I enjoyed was the layering of the serious and the playful – as Felix explores their identity there are moments that are deep and dark, but equally moments that are joyful and even silly. These don’t have to exist separately, indeed it is the playful that very often the validation to the serious, the joy that illuminates the dark.
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