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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: All, i saw this author read in NY and every passage was so funny and piognant! It's unusual to find writing that is this naturally funny and doesn't seem to force the humor on the reader. There is real subtlety and wit on every page of this book. I bought it immediately after the reading and have been laughing ever since.
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Summary: Emily Jenkins is hilarious
Review: All, i saw this author read in NY and every passage was so funny and piognant! It's unusual to find writing that is this naturally funny and doesn't seem to force the humor on the reader. There is real subtlety and wit on every page of this book. I bought it immediately after the reading and have been laughing ever since.
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Summary: Clever but disturbing
Review: Emily Jenkins is a talented writer, but I was hoping to read something funny (read: uplifting); however, this book delved into the sick area of child molestation. I ended up skimming through the book to find out who the creep/child molester/villian was. I prefer funny/zany writers like Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic
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Summary: You! With the cucumber sandwiches!
Review: I howled through the 8-year-old narrator's first play, a misguided but enthusiastic attempt to incorporate spelling words creatively, though I must say, I have always spelled heinie with an ie, myself.
What a sharply observed comedy - hits 3rd grade playground politics on the head with a resounding bang!
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Summary: I can't wait for Emily Jenkin's next book!
Review: I loved this book. It can take any reader back to their childhood to remember the little things that you so often forget. The story was original and easy to read. It was a real page turner!!
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Summary: My new favorite author!
Review: I Loved this book. It made me laugh out loud!! Thank you Emily Jenkins for creating such a great book! I look forward to your next novel!
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Summary: Captivating and Funny Point of View
Review: I was immediately charmed by the voice of our heroine, and I really couldn't put the book down once I started. Except for the fact that as I got closer to the end, I didn't really want it to end.
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Summary: Steller First Novel!
Review: I was lucky enough to take a class taught by Emily Jenkins, while at college. Back then, I thought she was a great teacher and talented writer and now a few years later, I see that I was absolutely not mistaken. This book was funny, clever, so creative and poignant, I can't imagine anyone not finding it completely engrossing and worth finishing in a day and a half(as I did.) I am definitely very much looking forward to Emily's next novel!!
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Summary: intrepid eight-year-old explores newfound consciousness
Review: It is no easy feat the describe and define the onset of self-awareness in a child's life; the task is more difficult when the child's consciousness forms itself in the heady, self-aborbed early 1970s. Emily Jenkins' winning debut novel, "Mister Posterior and the Genuis Child" creates a memorable eight-year-old protagonist in Vanessa, who most endure growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a home where her single mother,Debbie, tries to navigate the currents of consciousness-raising, alternative education and sexual satisfaction. Vanessa's voice rings true; her complex personality invites empathy and her myriad school and home experiences delight, horrify and illuminate. "Posterior" features an impressive, fast-paced narrative which enhances Jenkins' sharply-etched characters and invests their foibles with sympathy instead of disdain. Vanessa is a sensitive, precocious child who is acutely aware of her marginal status at a progressive, counter-culture, purportedly child-centered school. Chafing at her suddenly obvious differences, Vanessa alternates between rejecting her distinctiveness and embracing it. Upon discovering her status as a scholarship student -- a poor kid from a poor, single-parent family -- and ingesting a classmate's comments on her being different, Vanessa remarks that "it felt like confirmation of something I had known all along." Her mother, whom Vanessa resolutely calls Debbie, struggles with her own baggage. "The only child of two blisteringly spotless people," Debbie rebels through diet and her own steadfast belief in her daughter's right to be. Debbie repudiates her parents' "veneer of shiny white happiness" as she flails away at her solitary life. Dating a seemingly endless array of losers, Debbie unwittingly increases the velocity of Vanessa's maturation by hiring a babysitter, whose adolescent fixation on boys augments a budding curiosity in Vanessa. This desire to know, to question leads Vanessa into conflict with quasi-permissive (but secretly manipulative and lazy) teachers whose premise of allowing children to prgress at their own pace runs afoul of their unwillingness to instruct and guide. A member of the "Super Spellers," Vanessa includes explicit sexual vocabulary in a hilarious script she was voluntarily coerced into writing. The episode reveals not only her vivid imagination but also the utter blindness of school authorities to authentic childhood creativity. Vanessa adamantly refuses to perceive herself as a victim, and this core resiliency carries her through the central crisis of the novel: an exhibitionist whose bare bottom alarms her mother, babysitter and neighborhood but merely amuses her. Vanessa's unflinching belief in herself -- a self defined by imagination, play and discovery -- serves as a model of behavior, not just for children, but for adults as well. "Mister Posterior and the Genuis Child" is vibrant and engaging. Its author, Emily Jenkins, invests her protagonist with an informed childhood sensibility, one open to hurt and fear, but even more receptive to the wondrous, messy possibilities of life.
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Summary: Getting behind a great book
Review: Mister Posterior and the Genious Child is a funny, disturbing, and full-of heart story of a young girl and her single mother as they struggle to come to terms with each other their changing lives and the harsh reality of growing up. To say that this is merely a comming of age story is too simple. This is a humorous look at what childhood innocence and growing up are all about. It deals with the caustic meanness
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