Indeed, it is those sparse spaces of deepest feeling that provide the story's most powerful and beautiful moments. This glimpse at a character's interiority helped mitigate the repellent silence of their cool and tough exteriors.
Despite the emotional restraint, the narrator is full of deeply felt and well-articulated feelings, and these emerge in his many reflective musings and asides. And it's a tribute to the 1980s, which this autobiographical novel conjures in all their awkward, awful innocence. It will resonate with anyone who has felt love, which is to say all of us. It's a tribute – to first love, especially those first loves which prove immutable and enduring.
As with all good literature, it doesn't really matter.
it's unclear just how much of the narrative is novel and how much fact. equal parts poignant tribute and glaring warning.
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