![]() They didn’t even realize where they were living. Certainly you would never guess what follows: On the basis of that sentence alone, you probably wouldn’t keep reading. On the basis of that sentence alone-its stale familiarity, its clunky syntax (“the reason was because”), its pandering parents-just-don’t-understand gloss on adolescent alienation-you’d expect the most formulaic of young adult fiction. The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. ![]() ![]() Has there ever been a novel with a more misleading opening sentence than Weetzie Bat? Francesca Lia Block’s 1989 debut begins: ![]()
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