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How Are You Going to Save Yourself
How Are You Going to Save Yourself | J M. HOLMES
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Both humorous and heart-breaking, How Are You Going To Save Yourself is a timely debut about sex, race, family and friendship for fans of Junot Diaz and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It explores the lives of four friends from the city of Pawtucket: Rydell, Lazarus, Rakim, and Giovanni, or more affectionately Rye, Dub, Rolls, and G. Once bound together by location and shared experience, their bonds fade and change as their adult lives begin to take different shapes. They are confronted with society's expectations of them, family pressures, and ultimately the way they see themselves - sometimes conforming, sometimes challenging the stereotypes. Ultimately they are trying not to fail themselves and the people they love.
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So not for me. Someone else will probably enjoy it though. Writing and dialogue decent, but the further in I got, the less I liked it. The older they got, the less sympathetic I was. Self inflicted problems, but they never blamed themselves for anything. Ended up skimming and skipping over bits. Ending also self inflicted. No one saves themselves and I burned too much time on it.