![]() ![]() ![]() It also brought back many situational memories for me: Week-long (and shorter) camping trips with my family summers spent working at camp as a lifeguard, 8 boating instructor, and waterfront director crawling through drainpipes to fetch lost sports equipment 9 the sudden arrival of emergency personnel to a scene that, let’s face it, stupid adults blew all out of proportion. This book hit just about every emotional and rational 2 chord a former twelve-year-old boy could have: The embarrassment of having to spend a lot of time where your parents work 3 the horror of sending someone to the hospital when all you intended was a bit of yellow-pencil slapstick 4 the surreality of attending the first mixed-gender non-birthday party with members of your own peer group the awkward phases of noticing and trying not to notice girls 5 the shock of discovering you just may be one of the dumb people you despise the slow realization of how much people actually lie to each other, and that most of the lies they tell are neither malicious nor harmful 6 and the perhaps even slower acknowledgement that we simultaneously control and yet lack control over the things that happen to us. ![]() 1 I read it in Barnes & Noble, and I LOL’d a LOT. Anyway* by Arthur Salm is a work of genius. ![]()
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