Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You by Peter CameronRead by Lincoln Hoppe
Publisher: Listening Library 2008
6 CDs
My current practice of listening to Young Adult novels on audio book has not only allowed me to hone my YA reader's advisory skills, it has also produced the interesting side effect of now I seem to "read" more YA than anything else. Not that there is anything wrong with that, it isn't like my brain has an finite amount of room for storing things that I have read, but it does mean that if I keep true to my mission of blogging about every book I read, then the vast majority of my posts will be about YA literature. But is that really such a bad thing?
Take this subtly well crafted story of a young man who shuns the world; yet at the same time he feels alienated from those around him, still manages to make remarkably clear connections to the people around him. I say that this story is subtle, because for a YA novel it is. Compared with most of the modern coming of age novels I have read recently, this story stands out for its realism. The protagonist lives in a world at odds with itself. One of privilege (his father is some high powered attorney and his mother owns an art gallery that she never works at) yet at the same time we can see his quiet desperation to find normalcy amongst this failing world.
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