![]() Meno knows this area well he must, because he invokes it perfectly and genuinely for us, the rows of small brick houses, the squares of lawn, the parochial schools, and the malls and parking lots where teenage socializing goes on, and the basement parties where teenage sexuality is explored. ![]() Their repeated failures to act, to talk, and to connect, mire them more deeply into misery and self-loathing and fear of what comes next in their lives.Īuthor Joe Meno places his teenagers in the very White, working class, and Catholic southside neighborhoods of Chicago. Again we have a young couple, each with a unique and private history, each trying to understand sexual appetite and misunderstanding each other. ![]() ![]() In Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno, who-woulda-thunk-it but I found the same themes as in On Chesil Beach, which I wrote about yesterday. ![]()
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