Tracy Flick Can’t Win: a novel
High School level games amongst adults? Unsure of the provenance. Press relations suggested it was mordantly funny.
Not so sure about “mordantly funny,” but amusing in its own right, a post-modern tale, commencing eerily similar to other scholastic endeavors, but it does veer off into more adult contemporary material.
Urbane in a white-washed way. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Tracy Flick Can’t Win: a novel
The narrative is based around and we read her thoughts, Tracy Flick, an assistant principal at a high school. Then, through eyes and voices of a half-down other characters, we get to see the tale unfold. Doesn’t shy away from school shootings, sexual identity, football head injuries, or race and discrimination. The shifting POV, each character filling in a portion, a distinctive and different view of the action itself?
Made me pause and think, write the whole story from one POV then from another? With the shifting narration, early on in the novel, I had to scroll back a page or two to make sure I understood who was narrating at the moment. That style, though, cleverly paced and parsed well?
Made me think.
