Just about okay

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Again, again is about how Adelaide Buchwald spends her summer holiday remaining on campus when she is 16. She is unsettled by the end of her relationship with Mikey, her brothers problems with drugs and her failing academic grades.
She walks 5 dogs belonging to her father’s fellow teachers and thinks about her relationships with her brother, Toby, who is in rehab, and three fellow students with whom she has physical relationships.
The form of writing is unusual as great swathes of it is set out as if it is poetry. There are also places were several alternative narratives are offered before the story continues on what the reader assumes is the correct version.
The book is aimed at Young (American) Adults and I really didn’t ‘get it’.

I am surprised at the great reviews this book has received. As far as I can see, it is a case of the emperors new clothes.