Towelhead

I read this book when I was in high school completely unaware of what it would be like since I had checked it out of a local library and finished it in a couple days.

At the time I was very confused by this book since I didn't really have the context (as a dumbass high school boy) with which to properly understand the themes and experiences this book was trying to represent. Even now, with 7 years of experiences I've been through I'm made uncomfortable by the very thought of this book.

But it also occurs to me that was intended and that the reason it's maybe stayed with me so long is due to it's fundamentally distressing premise about a young girl in the midst of growing through her adolescence, trying to understand the world around her and being taken advantage of by people who should know better and being abandoned by the people who were supposed to protect her.

I'm not really sure even this many years on whether this is a good book, but through reading it, I have been impacted in a way I would not have been otherwise and for that I believe it has accomplished the goal it set out to do and allowed me to view life through a perspective I would never have experienced.