In E. Lockhart’s FLY ON THE WALL, 16 year old Gretchen Yee doesn’t feel like she belongs. In fact, she’s feeling a bit like a Vermin, just one of the hundreds of ordinary students attending the Manhattan High School for the Arts. She doesn’t play any sports. She loves to draw Spiderman, muscles and everything. And she’ll never pick up smoking like her best friend Katya, who’s abandoned her to hang out with the Art Rats. But when her mom takes off on vacation, the strangest thing happens to Gretchen—she wakes up as a fly on the wall in the boy’s locker room. Of all places! Gross, right? Yet some might call it the opportunity of a lifetime. In this modern day adaptation of Franz Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS, Lockhart gives us a glimpse into the world as Gretchen sees it, no interruptions, no interactions, just eyes, eyes, eyes and everything they’re able to see.
With spot-on accuracy and cutthroat humor, Lockhart takes advantage of a young girl’s inability to speak and takes us straight into her thoughts about a world she, like many girls, has never experienced. Her stream of consciousness takes her down a road she’d never imagined possible, one which scares her to death while at the same time giving her the perfect chance to think about boys, her desires, her life, and what exactly it is that she loves most in this world.
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