The Patterns of Paper Monsters
A Adult Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary book. Everyday we have to go to classroom 107A, where portions of English, math and social studies...
Jacob Higgins's teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he's indifferent to school and his friends--though a little less casual about girls and marijuana. His antics have landed him in a North Virginia detention center, where nihilism, freedom, and redemption all take on unexpected guises. In a voice filled with confusion, yearning, and sardonic humor, Jacob narrates his improbably sweet romance with Andrea, an inmate with whom he shares rare glances, melodramatic conversation, and waxy cookies at rigidly chaperoned "socials." But when David, a mysterious, conniving adolescent, handpicks him to assist in a plot to bring about the center's demise, Jacob has to weigh the frail new optimism of his relationship with Andrea against the allure of destruction, rebellion, and escape. In her pitch-perfect debut, Emma Rathbone...
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- Pages: 206 pages
- ISBN: 9780316077507 / 0
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I read it over and over again. I turned it over, turned it back, smoothed it out on my pillow and then read it some more. It was written on a piece of torn-out spiral notebook paper. It had seams like it had been folded and unfolded a few times. I looked into the manila envelope again to see if there was anything else. There wasn't. Emma Rathbone, The Patterns of Paper Monsters // Everyday we have to go to classroom 107A, where portions of English, math and social studies are meted out like different nutrients of a hospital diet. Emma Rathbone, The Patterns of Paper Monsters // When we started walking to the computer room, I thought I was pretty prepared because I had managed to withdraw the balled-up outline worksheet from the paper graveyard under my bed. Emma Rathbone, The Patterns of Paper Monsters //
Really well written, and honest narrative. Didn't give the characters false hope or positivity, but didn't get trapped in moroseness either. Plus the title - I love both the title and the cover a lot. The first person narrator is complicated and really well developed, but the other characters stay pretty flat. This might have been intentional... This isn't the type of book that I would normally read, but I'm still glad that I did. At first I was confused as to why Jacob was in the JDC; it was hard to relate to him. I liked the fact that there was no romance involved, it wouldn't have been 'right' to put him and Andrea together for some reason. I also loved the way the author... Wow, I don't think I can say enough how much I dislike this book!The characters were not developed, except for Jacob. I was really looking forward to reading about Andrea, but she never had anything really revealing told about her. She woulda been an amazing character, and so would David..but it just didn't happen. The plot, or lack...
