by Alicia Erian
Powerful - uncomfortable - predatory
*sigh*I picked up the book Towelhead: A novel because I was intrigued by the New York Times' review of the movie directed by Alan Ball (of Six Feet Under and American Beauty). I also picked it up, because I'm always interested in how authors' portray the burgeoning sexuality of preteen and teen girl...
This was kind of a disturbing read and it make me uncomfortable. Maybe that was the point but I'm still not a fan.
I should admit that I really don't know what's going on with thirteen year olds these day. So, maybe this book is a frank and sensitive portrait of a precocious abused kid. Or, it's a prurient, skeevy potboiler dressed up as a frank and sensitive portrait, etc.I'm thinking probably the latter, but ...
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