![]() ![]() The teens leave school and say “call me later,” and that evening, each in his or her own bedroom, they talk on the phone. ![]() I was struck by the simple fact that this was a time before cell phones. The novel, with the fictional Donaldson family at the center, is set in that year, right here in T-town. They are students at Central High their stories are told in alternating chapters.Īuthor Martin Wilson is a Tuscaloosa native and, I would guess, a 1991 graduate of Central High. ![]() The story is told in a straightforward, clear and non-experimental way, and it is absolutely about young adults, brothers Alex and James Donaldson. “What They Always Tell Us” is a first novel, marketed as a “young adult” book, although - as many are commenting recently - that category may be as specious and useless now as it was when “Little Women” and “Tom Sawyer” were in it. ![]()
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