"In 2035, social status no longer determines who's good or isn't, but their degree of "coreness," or political correctness. But these barriers prove weak before the forces of love, pain, joy and fear."
"Most coming of age novels are set in the past, probably because most are reflections of the author's early years. Not in this case though, where Cunningham's 2004 novel reaches back into the mind."
""....and 1951 was before my time, when Stuart, a boy hustled - as were many - into early manhood by the war, receives a second coming of age that reveals his own character to him."
"....and leads in well to this newly published collection of stories and blogs by 30 bloggers on the Xanga system, most of them in their teens or early twens, little removed from the anguish of youth."
"A great deal of most people's coming of age experience is about the characters who influenced them. Justin Halpern here describes one such real-life influence, his father."
