This book’s grade level is probably 3 rd grade and up and there are 158 pages. I don’t think boys would really enjoy reading the book. I would recommend this book to girls because Taryn has a little crush on a boy and there is other girly stuff like wearing make-up. I would give this book that rating because it grabbed me but it was not my favorite book. The book might teach some people a lesson about friendship. For example, the school’s principal wore swim trunks, a Hawaiian shirt, and lei to the carnival. I like this part of the book because there are a lot of crazy things happening.
One of my favorite parts in the book is when there is an awesome carnival at school and Taryn is the carnival crew leader. This book is about how friends can get along well and sometimes don’t get along so well. The main characters of the book are Taryn and Jeff. Things change in middle school because Taryn starts to hang out with girls more and Jeff starts to hang out with boys more. That kind of music made me jumpy, but when I felt tense, I felt happy." Though the prose is uneven, sometimes straining awkwardly for lyrical effect, readers will find Hong a compelling personality.Have you ever read a book about how friends get along? The book, The Boy Next Door, by Laura Dower, is about how Taryn and Jeff’s friendship changes when they get to middles school.
Love, for me, was partly a mood, just like that ultradopey bullshit music that I sometimes liked to listen to. Hong's frequent self-analysis feels honest, unpretentious and believably adolescent Mian never lets us forget that for all her grim, worldly experience, Hong is still touchingly young and exuberant: "My mood was like my lover's hair. Mian doesn't shy away from the ugliness of this world alcoholism, drug addiction and AIDS cases abound but her perceptive, compassionate writing turns Hong's raw experiences into something beautiful.
Hong falls in love with a musician and quickly succumbs to an endless nightlife of sex and drugs and all the problems that tend to accompany such fun. Among the most successful enterprises are nightclubs, gambling, drugs and prostitution. Fearing she'll never get a job without an education, Hong heads south to the Special Economic Zone, where the government has lifted restrictions so business can flourish. The story begins in Shanghai, when a classmate's suicide prompts narrator Hong to drop out of high school. Candy has been published in eight countries to date and has become a bestseller in France.Ĭhinese novelist Mian Mian's American debut offers readers a vicarious journey to a place and time shrouded in mystery: gritty, underground China of the late 1980s through mid-1990s. This startling and subversive novel is a blast of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that opens up to us a modern China we've never seen before.īanned in China - with Mian Mian labeled the 'poster child for spiritual pollution' - Candy still managed to sell 60,000 copies, as well as countless additional copies in pirated editions. As Hong navigates the temptations of the city, she quickly falls in love with a young musician and together they dive into a cruel netherworld of alcohol, drugs, and excess, a life that fails to satisfy Hong's craving for an authentic self, and for a love that will define her. Hong, who narrates the novel, and whose life in many ways parallels the author's own, drops out of high school and runs away at age 17 to the frontier city of Shenzen. An international literary phenomenon - now available for the first time in English translation - Candy is a hip, harrowing tale of risk and desire, the story of a young Chinese woman forging a life for herself in a world seemingly devoid of guidelines.
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