Mister Posterior and the Genius Child

I've always been fascinated with the 60's.
This book seems to me to accurately use
that time as a backdrop for the story, to
truthfully show the sixties as a time of
deep confusion about values. Vanessa,
the narrator, is a great mix of both
childlike simplicity and adult perspective,
so that we readers can view the sixties in
both ways at once. Some of my favorite parts
were the House of Terror at Fright Night,
Luke and Vanessa playing Peter Pan, and
all the conversations between Vanessa and
her “mouse-sitter”. It was in dialogue that
I thought the author best caught the time,
working out, in all its nuances, what is right
and what is true. Quirky. Fun. Recommended.