Dec 15, 2009

Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered | Social Sensitivity

Harris and Me is a book that celebrates mischief. It looks with an adolescent's instinctive excitement at activities that many adults would correct or punish a child for. Me knows that no adult would approve of his possession of "dourty peectures" but he is at an age when "hormones . . . dominate my every waking moment," and he finds them useful barter items. Both boys play with abandon in the muck and manure of the barnyard; they may be grossed out by the smell and touch, but they are delightedly grossed out. With normal adolescent curiosity, the pair test cigarettes but find...