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Gayle Forman
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Gayle Forman is the author of If I Stay, Sisters in Sanity and You Can’t Get There From Here. Her work has appeared in several publications, including The Nation, Elle, and Details. Author |
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Peter Cameron’s novel Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. Several weeks after finishing it, I am still thinking about the book’s erudite, confused hero, James, who’s grappling with his future, his sexuality, his screwed-up family, and his 9/11-scarred hometown. Cameron, a critically acclaimed adult author, won heaps of raves for this coming-of-age tale and I’m sure it sold fine, but somehow that doesn’t seem quite enough. I can’t get why everyone hasn’t read this book. Though it’s become a cliché to say so, Someday… deserves to join the pantheon of teen misfit-lit classics—right up there with Holden. With a paperback version coming out in April, there’s time to remedy that. Forget the YA label; it’s a book for the ages. |
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