{"id":4398,"date":"2013-05-21T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2013-05-21T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:20:16","slug":"kirkus-star-for-bennett-madisons-september-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/21\/kirkus-star-for-bennett-madisons-september-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkus Star for Bennett Madison’s SEPTEMBER GIRLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KIRKUS REVIEW<\/h2>\n

A meditation on manhood takes a turn into magical realism in this mesmerizing novel.<\/p>\n

Sam, his father and his older brother are all coping\u2014with varying degrees of success; Sam\u2019s coping includes whiskey and frozen pizza\u2014with Sam\u2019s mother\u2019s departure for Women\u2019s Land. In an attempt to pull things together, his dad decides they will spend the summer on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Prickly yet lethargic, 17-year-old Sam gradually becomes intrigued by the mysterious, beautiful blonde girls who work at the hotels and restaurants there. Interspersed throughout Sam\u2019s slightly sarcastic first-person narration are short, haunting prose poems from these sisters, who can\u2019t swim though they come from the ocean and whose mother is the Deepness and whose father is the Endlessness. The girls seem to reinvent themselves as needed, much as they reinvent the island where they live, adding to the air of mystery.\u00a0 The brothers\u2019 parents are vividly portrayed, particularly the once-frumpy mother who left their father in a \u201cswamp of discontent\u201d\u2014which turns into a complete abandonment of his job and their usual life. The heart of the story centers on Sam\u2019s gradual unfurling into a less brittle, kinder and more thoughtful youth. The writing, though realistically laced with the F-word and references to smoking and drinking, has a curiously appealing distance from the ordinary but doesn\u2019t abandon it altogether.<\/p>\n

A not-mermaid story for boys.\u00a0(Magical realism. 14 & up)<\/em><\/p>\n

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from Kirkus Reviews KIRKUS REVIEW A meditation on manhood takes a turn into magical realism in this mesmerizing novel. Sam, his father and his older brother are all coping\u2014with varying degrees of success; Sam\u2019s coping includes whiskey and frozen pizza\u2014with Sam\u2019s mother\u2019s departure for Women\u2019s Land. In an attempt to pull things together, his dad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}