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Sonnenblick, Hashemite kingdom of jordan. 2007. Zen and the Fine art of Faking It. (Scholastic)
Coming Oct 2007
I was very excited to receive an ARC of Zen and The Art of Faking It because I really loved Sonnenblick's previous novels, Notes From A Midnight Commuter and Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie. In some ways, all of his books share a similar theme: immature teen boys who through the course of the book discover or "discover" themselves. His books all have to do with the whole growing-upwards-to-be-a-man process. While Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie dealt with a teen who had a brother with a serious disease and Notes From A Midnight Driver dealt with a teen who had broken the police force and was doing community service, Zen and the Art of Faking It appears to bargain with a less serious topic.
San Lee is an eighth grader who is transferring into a new school mid-semester. A boy who is aroused at his father, who is in jail, for ruining his life all those years dragging him and his mom from country to state all those years then he could be a con creative person. A boy trying to redefine himself. Each new state, each new school, he redefines himself. He tries to "fit in" with a dissimilar group and projection a different image. In his first few days at this new school, he begins to define himself into someone that this Beatle-girl, Woody, would like. He describes her in this way, "you took one wait at her and knew she was hearing a different drummer. Maybe even a dissimilar kazoo. For all I know she might have been waltzing to the color of a differnt smell. She was out there anyway" (13-14). During the first stage of his transformation, he becomes--after a lunchroom meet with his dream girl--a "shy whistler. Not much to pin a whole personality on, only it was a offset" (nineteen). Simply soon after, he becomes a 'zen principal' all in the name of honey.
It all started like this. He was in social studies. With Woody. The girl of his dreams. San Lee only happened to know the answer to the question the instructor was request. San Lee had to ask himself, am I a shy child who is smart and speaks up when the teacher asks a question...or a shy kid who mumbles "I don't know" when called upon. He decides to become for it. He answers the teacher's questions about zen/buddhism. Presently after a classmate, a bullying kind of guy, starts to call him Buddha boy. And so San Lee decides to go with that. If people want to assume that he is Buddhist because he is Chinese, then why not get with that? Especially if this Beatle-girl is impressed by his mastery.
So what is the first thing San Lee does? He heads direct to the library to brainstorm his research. If his classmates want him to exist a zen primary...so he had better get started. And thus begins a pocket-size deception...equally San Lee begins to 'fake' his mode through school and make friends in the most unexpected places. Will he exist caught in his lies? Is there a price to pay for his deception? Can he really be true to himself and keep maintaining his epitome?
Ane of the trends of 2007 that I've noticed is the theme of lying. In ane book after another, it seems that each narrator either accidentally or purposefully gets defenseless upward in one lie after another...and has to pay the consequences for his/her deception. We see that in Harmless, Kimchi & Calamari, Lost It, Now Y'all See Her, Tall Tales, and at present Zen and the Art of Faking It. The volume that most closely parallels Zen and the Art of Faking It is Kimchi & Calamari. Both feature Asian kids adopted by white parents who in the process of finding themselves end up in a tangled deception all in the name of love, friendship, and popularity.
Overall, I enjoyed Zen and the Art of Faking Information technology. I was not disappointed, this is another quality book from Hashemite kingdom of jordan Sonnenblick. While I still feel Notes From A Midnight Driver is my favorite of the three, I think Zen and the Art of Faking It will find many eager readers.
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