Cody Troyer
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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And I also thought I think what was particularly masterful about it to me is that it's a gradual shift.
And then we begin seeing other things like his his emotional development coming through and his language.
language there also kind of starting and then gradually shifting.
Um and since we're in his mind with him, you really brought along this this trail.
And I I think it's something that it, you know, if Keyes hadn't absolutely nailed that, it would not have been a good novel.
Like it it is it is the foundation that makes the rest of it work because you buy in because you're believing this is happening to this character.
Yeah, I agree.
Um, I you also pointed out something interesting, which I had not really th thought of it uh framing the story this way, but it it's a coming of age tale, isn't
with, I guess, a little bit is that I do think it's kind of a YA story in it in the best way, which is um it meets adolescents at the things that they
are are thinking about, um, which is probably why it's why it's taught and why it works in schools.
Um, it meets them but it treats them as adults and it says you can handle these topics in st instead of saying, um, you're not old enough, we can't talk about this yet.
It it deals with topics.
We're not gonna
We're gonna talk about the uncomfortable things that you're thinking about and treat you as an adult and bring you in and and help you grow, um, which is I I think where
Yeah, or maybe I mean, maybe like the the genre boundaries are collapsing when it's something like this that's this good, uh right?
You're you're like, Okay, I mean, we could call it all sorts of things.
Maybe we don't call it YA so it doesn't end up on a YA shelf because it doesn't belong there.
It belongs on like literary classics, whatever.
So you're
Maybe it's a little bit more than a little bit.
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