![]() ![]() It's a good reminder to remember the people who gave so much of themselves to us, because by no means was it all, and in no way was it ever easy. A quick note: There is a 45min forward to the book that, while I think is an excellent addition as it's an inside retrospective look at this book's journey through the decades, I believe it would be better experienced after the book itself and not before. It's heartbreaking and wonderful, discouraging and inspiring, often all at the same time. Yet these conversations, conflicts, circulars and camaraderie existed in my own high school years 30 years later, and in my nephew's today. I laughed, I cried, my heart ached and I sometimes cringed because I kept forgetting this was the 60s - any numbers quoted have only gotten worse. ![]() I went into this book completely unknowing and had to finish it in a single day. ![]() ![]() Nothing offensive, no caricatures, and quite honestly every one of the "SS" (special slow) English class was performed in such a way to capture the artless honesty, the goofiness, the cries for help and sincere love that high school students do so well and so rawly. By the end of the book (as the "Sug Box" pseudonyms are dropped) I was naming every kid from her characterizations alone. 60 years old and every word is still true.īarbara Rosenblat is an absolute gem. ![]()
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