![]() ![]() Barry is Hal's bright star, a confident, outgoing, sexy young adult who is negotiating with grace and ease the exact difficulties which paralyze Hal. ![]() In one afternoon, a bad decision leaves him in some serious trouble.and Barry Gorman appears in the nick of time. His family has recently relocated and he feels aimless, unrooted, lost. ![]() Told in the form of diary entries, after-the-fact-journaling, newspaper clippings, and official reports from a social worker, the novel plunges us straight into one summer in the life of a boy trembling on the edge of a cliff called "adulthood." Hal is frightened of what the future may hold, confused by the adult world but no longer feeling a part of the world of children. The voice of Henry "Hal" Robinson shines through every word of this mid-sized novel. The novels that resonate the most with me are ones with unreliable narrators and a non-traditional or non-linear narrative. After reading the first page of Dance on My Grave, I was hooked. ![]()
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