Fruit is funny and clever. It's a remarkably quick read, though the prose doesn't suffer for it.Our narrator, Peter, goes through his last year of life before entering high school by delivering papers, indulging in weird fantasies, spending time with his foul-mouthed neighbor, seeing the Virgin Mary in the woodwork of his closet door, and struggling with his weight, his inflamed nipples, and his family.Written in first person, the book reads as Peter's immediate thoughts, focusing on narrating his life, but..
Wonderful and strange novel about an overweight teenaged boy whose nipples talk to him. Sounds weird, right? And it is, but it's also gut-wrenchingly honest and open, and any kid who's ever struggled with a weight problem (or with a sexual identity crisis, for that matter), will completely relate to thirteen year-old Peter Paddington. Horrified by his huge nipples (or, as they'd call them on Seinfeld, "man boobs"), which he's sure all the kids can see through his tee-shirt, Peter starts by wrapping his ches..
Peter Paddington is not an ordinary adolescent, concerned about girlfriends and a few facial blemishes or whether to lose a pound or two. No, in Peter's little corner of Sarnia, Canada, he is worried about a boyfriend and fifty pounds (or more) and the fact that part of his anatomy has begun speaking to him (always giving bad advice, at that). Trapped in his corpulent body, when not binding his developing (and talking) chest with masking tape or examining the weird places where body hair has suddenly sprout..
