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...girls call her Lesbo, and Brandon (Brendan Sexton Jr.), the juvenile delinquent who is the only boy with an interest in her, demonstrates it by threatening rape. When she responds in kind to a spitball attack, she almost puts a teacher's eye out. Things are scarcely better at home: Dad is passive, Mom is aggressive; her elder brother is a computer nerd and the leader of a hopeless garage band; her little sister is a tattletale in a tutu, meanly waltzing off with such love as can survive in the cold climate of split-level suburbia...
...lyrics are mostly about sex, yet they have a literate, sometimes explicit edge; they are drawn from poetry written by Peter's aunt, Erica Jong, the feminist author. Dear Anne Sexton, for example, takes the form of letters between two women who shared the same man. It gets racy, but never formulaic...
...need to select not a sexton who will chair meetings and go home, but an active leader who knows you personally," he said, "and who knows where you sleep...
Hanselman philosophized on the nature of Memorial Hall's sexton, the "anonymous leader" who rings the bells that structure students' days...
However, Gray Sexton's story speaks for itself. On the whole, the uneven tone does little to diminish the book's message of forgiveness and survival. The memoirs competently address so many of the relevant issues of family relationships and the horrors of mental illness and abuse. What could have easily been dismissed as yet another tell-all expose by a spiteful relative is instead...