Growing up in the Bay Area in the '90s there were certain staples of culture that touched everyone. Some were more mainstream, like a love of Sublime or the inevitable experience of missing the last BART train and having to figure out another mode of transportation across the bay. Some were underground, like hanging out at 924 Gilman or reading Youth in Revolt.
At some point, C.D. Payne's book about a kid who's sick of his completely deranged parents and accidentally ends up running from the law, and dressing as a girl so he can stay in school to see his crush, Sheeni, crossed my path. Of course, any book about adolescent boys must be compared to Catcher in the Rye. I'm guilty of it myself. But Nick Twisp, makes Holden Caulfield look like a complete amateur as he evades the Oakland Police, CHP and even the FBI in a series of narrow escapes that keep getting more and more outrageous, yet never seem to cross into ridiculous.
Youth in Revolt is one of those books that captures the thrill of youth without condescending to the youth it describes. Plus, Michael Cera is playing Nick Twisp in the movie.
Happy Reading,
Julia
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