In the pressure cooker of high school, the rigid structure of peer pressure comes full force, it's hard to imagine anything more fraught with tension than winning a popularity contest. But that lesson in life started long before zits and Axe Body Spray, and Peter Fenton has created a world and a story that takes us from kindergarten to homecoming with deft telling and rapier-like wit, truly getting the voices and the tempers and the moments exactly on point. As one of them says, "You know what’s funny, though? We all got bigger. But nobody changed."
In the pressure cooker of high school, the rigid structure of peer pressure comes full force, it's hard to imagine anything more fraught with tension than winning a popularity contest. But that lesson in life started long before zits and Axe Body Spray, and Peter Fenton has created a world and a story that takes us from kindergarten to homecoming with deft telling and rapier-like wit, truly getting the voices and the tempers and the moments exactly on point. As one of them says, "You know what’s funny, though? We all got bigger. But nobody changed."
