{"id":13515,"date":"2013-06-01T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=13515"},"modified":"2013-06-01T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T05:51:09","slug":"waiting-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=13515","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anton DiSclafani. Riverhead, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-640-1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9781594486401.jpg.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13516\" title=\"9781594486401.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9781594486401.jpg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>From Publishers Weekly:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>The setup for this debut novel is delectable: it\u2019s 1930, the country is tumbling into depression, and 15-year-old Thea has done something bad enough to get her sent from Florida to an elite year-round \u201ccamp\u201d in North Carolina where, at least at first, the effects of the economy are kept at bay while affluent Southern girls become \u201cladies.\u201d DiSclafani, who grew up around horses, is at her best when recreating the intuition and strength of girls in the saddle. Otherwise Thea\u2019s narration feels flattened by history and the characters she encounters never achieve dimensionality. The build toward the revelation of Thea\u2019s crime is drawn out, sapping the reveal of drama, but the account of Thea\u2019s emerging sexuality provides meaningful reflections on the potency of teenage desire. Here too, however, DiSclafani seems distanced from her characters, relying on declarations such as \u201cI was not weak,\u201d \u201cI was angry,\u201d and \u201cI was glum\u201d when exploring the tension of conflicting feelings. Though there are many twists and turns, the prose numbs the pleasure of reading about even the most forbidden of Thea\u2019s trysts. Agent: Dorian Karchmar, WME Entertainment. (June)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls Anton DiSclafani. Riverhead, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-640-1 From Publishers Weekly: The setup for this debut novel is delectable: it\u2019s 1930, the country is tumbling into depression, and 15-year-old Thea has done something bad enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=13515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13522,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions\/13522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}