Katie Huggins’s Reviews > Crossroads > Status Update

“Never mind the 9year-old Perry:the fifteen-minutes-ago Perry was a stranger to him!Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight?The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul&knowledge.Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task,to know that I am I,& was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?~

“He remembered the sex talk, or what had passed for a sex talk, that his mother had given him before he left for college. Whatever else he might hear on campus, she'd said, sex without commitment was empty and ruinous. This was the ancient wisdom. As with the parietal rules, he was realizing too late that old people weren't entirely stupid. Beneath him was a weeping girl to prove it.”

I rly like this so far!

The few people that I’m friends with who have read this have all left glowing reviews, and I’ve seen multiple people say it’s one of the elusive Great American Novel… Naturally, when I saw a hard copy army local Walmart for $5, I decided to grab it.

I wonder how long it took him to write this.. I like how the vocabulary changes a bit with close look at the characters. I think I’m going to love this.