I think I get what you're saying re: the Williams. I liked the focus on Shayla, because the dilemma between breaking confidences and helping a friend felt very real and because I generally think talking about things like abuse and depression are important, but yeah, it's definitely not Kambia's story. I'm curious to see how she follows it up in the next book, because I want to see how Kambia is.
I keep wavering between using "problem novel" just to describe the anvilly ones and using it to describe the subgenre that does deal with issues and social problems in general! Right now I am leaning more toward the latter.
I don't know if Jacqueline Wilson's out here! I will have to check. And oooo, I had no idea Voigt wrote a deconstruction of the abuse-novel genre, awesome.
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Fri, Feb. 29th, 2008 12:05 am (UTC)I think I get what you're saying re: the Williams. I liked the focus on Shayla, because the dilemma between breaking confidences and helping a friend felt very real and because I generally think talking about things like abuse and depression are important, but yeah, it's definitely not Kambia's story. I'm curious to see how she follows it up in the next book, because I want to see how Kambia is.
I keep wavering between using "problem novel" just to describe the anvilly ones and using it to describe the subgenre that does deal with issues and social problems in general! Right now I am leaning more toward the latter.
I don't know if Jacqueline Wilson's out here! I will have to check. And oooo, I had no idea Voigt wrote a deconstruction of the abuse-novel genre, awesome.