I was generally lost a lot when reading this book, and I don't know if I was lost because it took me so long to finish, or it took me a long time to finish because I was so often lost. Who is saying what? What was with that sentence structure? What are they trying to say here? Huh? Who are they referring to? Who's that character again??

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Then at the very end, did anyone else feel like Carson came out of nowhere being all like, "What? Maggi is seeing another man? But I'm totally in love with her!" Uh, since when? Y'all shared a nice time talking on a school roof and she helped you swap a turkey, but NOWHERE during this book (unless it was lost on me in my constant confusion) did you express anything more than friendship towards her. Instead Carson spent the book just being a manipulative little shit towards all his friends and hardly interacted with Maggi at all. That really got on my nerves when I finally FINALLY was close to finishing this book.

It's nice to have a teen author besides the disgraced Sherman Alexie writing on behalf of Native American teens, but I don't know how many teens will be able to relate with this setting of a reservation in Niagara County, New York in 1980. Heck, how many of them even KNOW who John Lennon is??? I feel this book was written more for adults than teens, and even then, it caters to a very small audience.