Summary: High school artist Ovid’s journal recasts his classmates’ lives and loves as modern-day Roman mythology, while slowly revealing his own struggles with parents who need him to be the perfect son in the wake of his meth-addicted sister’s disappearance.
Candlewick
Tags: 2009, Candlewick
July 8, 2009 at 6:54 pm |
It was cool how the main character connected the poetry of his namesake to the goings on of his high school, but I was never able to really connect with him. So it’s a no from me.