As a fan of Nick Hornby, I believe it will be easy for other Hornby fans to welcome his first attempt at the teenage fiction genre. His initial success came from books with male protoganists, but also has written a novel with a female narrator in How To Be Good, as well as book with four different narrators, two male and two female, in A Long Way Down, quite successfully. I wasn’t sure at first what I thought about Hornby writing for young adults from the perspective of a teenager. The story, written from Sam’s point of view, is about Sam’s dealing with the fact he is soon to become a teenage father. Early in the story Sam meets Alicia, the two begin dating and shortly thereafter have sex and conceive a child. The novel is about Sam, a teenage skater (as in skateboarding) who seeks advice on life from Tony Hawk’s autobiography and talks to a poster of Hawk on his wall.
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