Status Updates From Harrison High

Why does every noire adjacent book or piece of media have to have a “Tragic Accident Happening In Front Of X Character To Forever Change Your Bond And The Trajectory Of Your Lives” that takes place in a rail yard???

“Every American student, who has all the books he could ask for free, is educated as an average integer, to achieve the limited demands of a machine-happy culture... In the hands of impractical philosophers education has become a bargain-basement special. Everybody can get it and nobody wants it. Learning is for eggheads. The average American doesn't know anything and doesn't care.”

"Nobody's to blame for lousy schools and bad teachers but the people who go on voting every election for the officials who support low taxes for education. Then the folks wonder why junior can't tell time by the watch they gave him for graduation."

plowed through the crowd, jostling against sullen-faced housewives who hurried from counter to counter clutching bedraggled brown sacks and parcels. Christmas cheer, Griff thought derisively.
That was a big laugh. The loudspeakers blared recorded carols and the place was dripping with tinsel and holly, but the salesclerks were short-tempered and the customers shoved you around in their greedy hurry to get somewhere.

One of these seventeen year olds is worried about going all the way and another is being roped into a 5K Liquor store robbery job

“Golly-ding, Seventeen these days was like twenty four used to be” is an insane sentence Faris is making me read with my own two eyes

Why is there a diatribe about all the poors using the G I Bill to move into tract housing and bringing down the educational standards of the magnet school???

“Teaching. The sound of the word promised drabness, boredom, anonymity. There was some of that, she had to admit. Routine. It could slow your blood, pinch at the nerves.Age you.
You would get as much out of teaching as you put into it, she had decided, like any other kind of work or play, and after a quarter century in the classrooms you would be like Mr. Kruger with the unbearably disillusioned eyes”

You know how you name your children Bob, Luke and Richele

This book…it’s like the opposite of Lo Dunc where 80% of the cast is a Sloppy Jo girls and you only get one pretty female bestie. Every other scene in this book is about how hunky, well kempt the boys are or how stacked the girls are. You would think there a municipal statute against plain looking people in Clarkston