Innocents, what misleadingly simple title. (Unless you want to feel more sane by comparing yourself to this protagonist, but seriously, this is one of those highly tabooed, epitome-of-fucked-up kinda books) But now I am one of those evil over-thirty folks and even though I still am distrustful of literary boundaries, I am honest enough to admit to mine. Apparently the author was a teenager when she wrote this and I was also a little edgelord when I was young, who thought that boundaries were things that were meant to be toppled and anyone who disagreed was one of those evil over-thirty folks who could not be trusted. Both books were transgressive and difficult to read and like, but I appreciated both how they chose to tell their stories and what they set out to accomplish.īut this. I also loved MY DARK VANESSA, which featured a really uncomfortable relationship between an older man and a young girl who thought she wanted what she was getting into but really had no idea. I gave BOY PARTS five stars, and that book made me want to stick my head in a hole until my mom came to pick me up from the big bad scary place.
Look, I'm pretty liberal with regard to what I read and I would consider myself pretty forgiving of unlikable antiheroines. I don't know who thought "LOLITA - but she was literally asking for it" was a niche that needed to be filled in the literary canon but here we are. "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire.Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest
Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong-even evil.
Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. enthralling and ultimately sobering" ( Kirkus Reviews). A young novelist "turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher.
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