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I had super high hopes based on the premise, but I probably should have tempered them when I read that it was a "return to your small town to find yourself" book. Sigh.
Having grown up and moved away from my own [actually small] town, I can, without a doubt, say yes, you revert to your teenage self when you return for visits, and no, you absolutely would not suddenly start questioning if you actually belonged there if you had, at any point in the last decade, found happiness - or even just NOT UNHAPPINESS - elsewhere. And the cruelty of toying with someone you used to be close to in a what-if way... sigh.
I get it - the whole book is full of transitions (direct or metaphorical). And thank fuck the ending (plot-wise) landed. (The fixation on the physics, sure....)
I had super high hopes based on the premise, but I probably should have tempered them when I read that it was a "return to your small town to find yourself" book. Sigh.
Having grown up and moved away from my own [actually small] town, I can, without a doubt, say yes, you revert to your teenage self when you return for visits, and no, you absolutely would not suddenly start questioning if you actually belonged there if you had, at any point in the last decade, found happiness - or even just NOT UNHAPPINESS - elsewhere. And the cruelty of toying with someone you used to be close to in a what-if way... sigh.
I get it - the whole book is full of transitions (direct or metaphorical). And thank fuck the ending (plot-wise) landed. (The fixation on the physics, sure....)