In Malagash, Joey Comeau may have written his best book yet. But he’s done so by writing against his own tendencies — signalling what might be a welcome maturation. She, her brother and mother have shipped out to Malagash, N.S., to be with him for his last days (he’s chosen to die close to his own mom). To Sunday, infecting hard-drives with her dad’s final words will give him a kind of ghostly, electronic afterlife. But even works for older readers are charged with a YA energy — quirky dialogue and sitcom-ready kids, all sass and precocity.

Source: thestar October 13, 2017 11:15 UTC