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Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung
Sex has always come without consequences for seventeen-year-old Evan. Until he hooks up with the wrong girl and finds himself in the wrong place at very much the wrong time. After an assault leaves Evan scarred inside and out, he and his father retreat to the family cabin in rural Minnesota?which, ironically, turns out to be the one place where Evan can't escape other people. Including himself. It may also offer him his best shot at making sense of his life again.
Rezensionen (5)
School Library Journal-Rezension
Gr 10 Up-Seventeen-year-old, perpetual "new guy" Evan relocates all too frequently with his unsettled widower father, hence never making any real friends. However, he has no problem scoping out easy girls in whatever town they happen to land. At a boarding school in North Carolina while his father is working overseas, Evan's sexual encounters with the wrong girl, schoolmate Collette, lead to his ruthless battering outside the group showers by two stereotypical big bruisers who also viciously rape Collette. Although Evan's badly scarred body heals, his wounded spirit struggles with post-traumatic stress. Spurred into trying to be a good parent, his father moves them to the family's lake house in rural Minnesota and enlists a helpful therapist. There Evan, at first uncomfortably, connects with a whole new cast of teens who offer friendship, partying, sexual, and even romantic potential; gets a job and a car; and slowly begins to resolve his feelings about the assault against him and Collette by writing therapy-prescribed unmailed letters to her. At the same time, Evan's persistent negative behavior means trouble again, though this time he might finally learn a genuine lesson. Evan is not likable initially, especially in the callous ways he sizes up and uses females, but after his horrifying ordeal he transforms into someone with and for whom readers will eventually sympathize, want to shake into sensibility, and feel hope. Crass, crude, yet accurate language amid a balance of harsh moments and sensitive transitions pepper this disconcerting but extremely well-crafted and thought-provoking story for mature teens.-Diane P. Tuccillo, Poudre River Public Library District, CO (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
As the title suggests, debut author Mesrobian takes aim at big topics, but what she's most interested in is the aftermath. Used to being the new guy, 17-year-old Evan may not be much at making friends, but he's great at finding "left-of-normal" girls to sleep with. When he gets involved with Colette, who's been labeled a slut by her ex-Evan's jockish jerk of a boarding school roommate-things go very wrong. Colette is raped, and Evan is badly beaten, which makes his workaholic father finally pay attention. The two move to a lakeside Minnesota town, where Evan is all but forced to engage with a crew of recent high school graduates, when he'd rather lock himself in his room all summer. As Evan heals physically and mentally, he has ample time to consider the part of himself he calls "Dirtbag Evan" and reevaluate his attitudes toward girls and sex. By focusing on Evan, Mesrobian talks about hookup culture in a way that is character-based, not agenda-driven, and showcases a teenager who grows and changes without becoming unrecognizable or saintly. Ages 14-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book-Rezension
Having never lived in one place for too long, Evan has become adept at finding sex without emotional attachment. When one of his pursuits results in a brutal beating, Evan and his dad return to the father's family cabin in Minnesota to begin the healing process. The writing is strong and gritty; Evan is a morally complex, emotionally affecting character. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus-Rezension
An intelligent, wry 17-year-old is brutally beaten in a communal shower by two classmates after he hooks up with one of their former girlfriends, setting the stage for a difficult recovery. Evan knows he's sort of a dick when it comes to girls, but being constantly uprooted to various boarding schools by his emotionally inept dad has caused him to eschew relationships and focus on honing his knack for identifying Girls Who Would Say Yes. After the assault that leaves Evan in the hospital, his father whisks him off to his own boyhood home in Minnesota, where he's uneasily sucked into a tightknit group spending their last summer at home getting high and hanging out before going off to college. Evan's intense, often-discomfiting first-person narration will deeply affect readers, and his darker side is troubling--in an aside about girls with eating disorders, he thinks, "I'd known some of those barf-it-up girls, and they were the worst. So crazy. So clingy. The first to get deleted from my phone." Packed with realistically lewd dialogue that is often darkly funny, this is a pitch-perfect, daring novel about how sex and violence fracture a life and the painstakingly realistic process of picking up the pieces. Evan's struggle is enormously sympathetic, even when he is not. Utterly gripping. (Fiction. 16 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist-Rezension
The word that comes to mind for this debut is tough. The absence of sentimentality and melodrama in favor of frank dialogue and bruising honesty is a gasp of fresh air or at least air that smells of blood and sweat. After repeated moves with his father, 17-year-old Evan has mastered being the new guy: identify the Girl Who Would Say Yes and have sex with her, posthaste. But he miscalculates and receives a beating so brutal that he loses his spleen and retreats to a small Minnesota town to recuperate. There, he warily integrates into a group of teens while dealing with a new set of trauma-related fears that have turned him into a fucking frozen eunuch. Yes, there's foul language aplenty and lots of (mostly fun, satisfying) sex, and Mesrobian's scuffed-up prose makes it all genuine, even when things get tangential. And this long-windedness affords its own woolly pleasures; mash John Barnes' Tales of the Madman Underground (2009) with Melina Marchetta's Jellicoe Road (2008), douse it with sex and scabs, and stand back. Unevenly weighted, but Mesrobian's potential is sky-high.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2010 Booklist
