Wow. We’ve had some heady books in the book club thus far and I’ve enjoyed them even when I can’t quite keep up. Now it’s time to inflict my sensibility!

Picture this: a teen Rosy Fingers, perfectly troubled in the usual 90’s fashion. School, and life, is a carnival of social confusion and so Rosy takes to truancy. Rosy ends up attending school about 2 days a week, max, but Rosy is reading in an undirected way.

Any book on the parents’ shelf: read.

Any book stealable from the school library: read.

This is how Rosy submits book reports on Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf and The Book of Samuel II and attains a failing grade. (This is also how Rosy becomes the school’s first student to ever fail Physical Education.)

But Rosy is reading. And somehow this book falls in his lap. In the best way of genre fare, it speaks to his sensibility.

It’s a little bit clumsy, it’s quite earnest but has a sense of humour about itself, and it’s pretty fucked up.

Enjoy!

The Solute Book Club: Easy to join! Read Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith on your own time and look to the Solute on Tuesday, January 4th for another piece by Rosy Fingers to kick off a discussion in the comments. More details here.