7/6/2023 0 Comments 20th century ghosts joe hill![]() By making Art something completely foreign to us Hill is able to access tough, basic emotions like love, empathy and loss in a way we can hold separate from ourselves, at arms length. ![]() The boys, being outsiders together, support each other, strengthening their dependence on one another. Hill perfectly captures a simple, no holds barred, on-point description of the hell that high school is for some: crummy or absent parents disability religion earning and giving trust, albeit reluctantly bullies and dealing with death before teen minds can accept, much less understand, it. Not so common is that the new kid also saves his savior, while still being very, very fragile himself. The plot is a common trope of YA fiction new kid gets relentlessly bullied because he’s different, but then, new kid makes a friend. And this time, like every time except the first, I knew what was going to happen! How could such a short, almost silly premised story blow me away like this? Reading it again now, for the umpteenth time because I’ve asked others to read it, I find myself on the verge of tears, AGAIN. ![]() ![]() When I first read the short story Pop Art I was hit with an intense feeling of sorrow. ![]()
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