Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThere’s a genre of literature, rife with fear and dismay, that’s more steeped in sinister fate than the novels of Thomas Hardy, more flecked with cruelty than the bad-dream collages of William Burroughs.
It’s so infused with a sense of life’s unfairness that merely to read it is to stalk the darkness.I’m talking, of course, about YA fiction.Someday, somebody will write an academic thesis — maybe it’s already been done — about why so many YA tales hinge on events of grandiose misfortune.
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