![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is about 16-year-old Aza Holmes, who suffers from OCD and extreme anxiety, conditions that manifest themselves in her fear of microbes. If Robert DeNiro can pretend to be 40 in the Irishman, the cast of Glee can be teenagers. The representation of high school and high school students seemed more like the brain child of a Hollywood agent pitching a show about a fictional high school, where all the teens would be played by 25-year old actors. Turtles All the Way Down scores in its representation of a teenage girl with severe anxiety and OCD, but the rest of it just never came together for me. There are exceptions, of course (my recent discovery of Eleanor & Park stands out), but generally all I can expect from YA is a solid character to whom teenagers can relate. ![]() I keep trying to like young adult fiction, to the point where it might be unfair of me to review the genre, since it’s clearly not my thing. ![]()
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