![]() ![]() I honestly don't care how controversial Chris Crutcher is. It's about friendship, racism, family issues, abandonment, setting goals and achieving them, the list goes on. Many people feel that TJ Jones and his group of misfit boys are making a mockery of what it means to earn a varsity letter.īut this book is about so much more than varsity sports. Earning a varsity letter is like earning your stripes. You see, sports at Cutter is an institution. Whale Talk is a novel about a misfit group of boys who start a swim team at their high school and all of the prejudice - individual and collective - that they experience from the adults and students at their school due to their "lack of respect" for the Cutter High School name. When people complain about him being too hard-hitting, I consider that an insult to all of the kids and families he's had to work with whose lives mirror what characters in his novels are going through. ![]() His experience as a family counselor gives him the authority to write the way he does. Chris Crutcher has built a writing career out of being a controversial presence in YA literature, but when you look past the convenience and ease of calling him controversial, you see a sensitive artist who cares about getting the story right. Words cannot express what an amazing novel this is. ![]()
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