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Stephen Buoro

Books and Authors

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How to Balance the Two Disparate Parts of a Teenage Boy

There's a lot of adolescent humour and lust in the book, but also it's incredibly poignant in places. There are some very big ideas, two Andes, and aspiring poet and has some quite outlandish philosophical theories. I love that idea of the novel as confession. It does read like that actually. We do enter his world and his hopes and aspirations. And I love how honest it felt. Of course, it's a novel, but it ran true, you know. The X of the equation is that there's a blonde here in Quantagura, a platinum blonde if I'll believe Isaiah,. A Marilyn Monroe who has never had mosquitoes sing in her ears and suck her blood,

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