"Danish modern." Granted, all of the action in the book took place when she was fifteen, and if I'm reading the last chapter correctly, she's a senior when she's doing the storytelling, but. It was a mishmash of styles and patterns with only one unifying theme-thrift. Chairs that looked like they would've been more at home in a medieval play about knights and dragons hadn't been properly introduced to the Danish modern end tables. Cut-rate carpets in off shades of beige and tan clashed with the Old World fabrics of the seat cushions. The rooms were large and spacious and seemed as if they'd been designed for the sort of elegance that the church could no longer afford. Anyone who has anything worth remembering will tell you that memory has a mind of its own things we tend to remember are often not even real memories, but rather the memory of memories that just happen to stick in the mind. This I'm going to remember." Memory isn't like that it isn't that selective. Lawrence and is prone to musings like this: On the adult literary fiction front, it stars a fifteen-year-old who loves D.H. On the Afterschool Special front, it's about a fifteen-year-old straight girl learning a lesson about how she shouldn't be an asshat to her younger, probably gay, cousin. It's also a good hundred pages longer than it needs to be. This young adult novel inspired the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway show The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, and is now available in paperback for the first time.Absolute Brightness doesn't know if it's an Afterschool Special or adult literary fiction. Phoebe, her family, and her community fight to understand what happened, and to make sense of why someone might want to extinguish the beautiful absolute brightness that was Leonard Pelkey.įrom an Academy Award-winning writer, actor, and activist in the LGBTQ community, this is a groundbreaking story about love, prejudice, and the aftermath of a senseless murder. He inspires the people around him-he sees people not as they are, but as they hope to be. When he comes to live with Phoebe’s family, he upsets the delicate balance of their lives. Leonard is an orphan, a cousin who Phoebe never knew she had. But everything changes when Leonard arrives. She helps her mom out with her hair salon, she goes to school, and she envies her perfect older sister. Phoebe’s life in Neptune, New Jersey, is somewhat unremarkable. From Trevor Project founder and Academy Award-winner James Lecesne, this YA novel about a gay teen who is murdered inspired the hit Off-Broadway show The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
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