Cracks by Sheila Kohler is an argument for co-ed education if I ever saw one. It's set in an all girls boarding school in the middle of nowhere in South Africa and is the story of the disappearance of one of girls from the swimming team. Dripping with hormones and longing it really captures the exquisite sort of boredom and feelings of adolescence. Where to go with all that feeling with only girls,girls, girls as far as the eye can see? Read the book and find out.
Interestingly it is written in the first person plural "we" like that other book I liked so much: And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, about the death of an ad agency. It works very well here too.
We like that.
Monday, August 24, 2009
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