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368 pages, ebook
First published June 6, 2017
“There were no adults . . . There were just tall children stumbling around the world, walking pools of unfinished hopes, unmet needs, and seething desires. The unsuccessful ones ended up in asylums. The ones who learned to masquerade those needs became politicians.”
“The beauty that had dazzled and blinded him fell away, as if he had drunk a potion in a fairy tale, and he had found himself walking beside the ordinary black girl, one who hid her insecurities behind a façade of bravado and radicalism. Her radicalism is phony, he thought, because it keeps her from seeing the world, blinds her to its mysteries and charms. Even her intellectualism is suspect because it’s not open-minded and skeptical and probing but, rather, circular, chasing its own tail.”