Status Updates From What We Do Is Secret: A Novel

I loooove this book. I love it as much as I did at 14.

I love this book so much

Engaging both mentally with the wordplay and emotionally with homeless kids making a life, a world for themselves.

"It's like the me of we is money spent I never had, how trendy is that, maybe I'm losing my punk religion, maybe I'm turning Reagan Republican. And isn't it him in the football flick on Darby's desert island list, where the dude come to with both legs chopped, and he's all, Where's the rest of me?"

Tim's voice comes through loud and queer a block away from Frederick's, then they're all on the frequency, playing hopscotch over Reagan's star on the Walk of Shame, all max vol from doing MDA in the wax museum, where they got the boot finally for pretending to be part of the Rocky Horror exhibit and scaring Japanese tourists by coming to life and stalking them with air samurais, yelling "Banzai!" and "Hirohito!"---

"And I try to be all, No Fear and No Regrets but there's one kind of fear you can't exactly high-five with and make it all better now, that fear of who you really are, ocean deep inside."

--The primal scream of punk I get 100%, it's the beyond, the destructive rage that never fit me. Great references and compelling language.

Dont Know where this is leading. Prose leading to bickering and homosexual lust and petting sequences.. positives is that there is a consistent punk/R&R energy and realism throughout.