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Looking for fun and Father Groovy: How I Paid for College by Marc Acito

Podcast |: Go Your Own YA
Publisher |: Carey and Marie
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Books,; Comedy,; Games & Hobbies,; Literature,; Young Adult
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Publication Date |: Apr 05, 2018
Episode Duration |: Unknown

Creative Vandalism! Extortion! Lots of Laughs! Carey and Marie revisit a favorite read a decade later to see how the madcap adventures of Edward Zanni's journey to Jilliard hold up in 2018. Witness Rie having a lot of feelings! Thrill to the 80s fashion and musical numbers! Practice sedate glamourbombing!

Marc Acito: Website, Twitter, Blog

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Content Warnings

Where do we start? Book is from the point of view of an Italian-American bisexual teen in New Jersey in the early 80s. There's sexism, internalized homophobia, transphobia, racism, coercive sex, blackmail, drugging, underage drinking, terrible parents, and "creative vandalism"--aka making life terrible for retail workers. We talk about it more in the episode, so reader caveat, the honesty of the narrative means revealing the ugliness of being a suburban queer in the 80s.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  (CC Marie Macula, Carey Farrell 2018)

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