Start from a world,
not a title.

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk...

Who gets to represent whom? Spivak's foundational question about voice, power, and the limits of Western intellectual rescue.

Nabokov's autobiography of exile, chess problems, butterflies, and the crystalline recovery of a lost St. Petersburg childhood.

Morrissey and Marr's peak. Wit, melancholy, and jangly guitar perfection.