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Original Title:	All About Lulu
ISBN:	1593761961 (ISBN13: 9781593761967)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Washington State Book Award for Fiction (2009)

All About Lulu

Jonathan Evison

Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 3.65 | 1280 Users | 218 Reviews

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Title	:	All About Lulu
Author	:	Jonathan Evison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	May 28th 2008 by Soft Skull Press
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Adult Fiction. Coming Of Age. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new step-mother, and his irrepressible crush on his new step-sister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself — discovering Western philosophy, a cruel dating world, enduring friendship, and, ultimately, his true calling. Emboldened by his turn as a late-night radio personality, Will rescues himself from the self-image of weakness he'd long wished to escape. This debut novel explores the fundamental difference between where we come from — and the endless possibilities of where we may go.

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This book is the inverse of Ms. Hempel Chronicles (see my review). It lacks the literary polish of Shun-lien Bynum's writing (though it's plenty accomplished), but it DOES recognize that THE story is not the obvious story. Evison gets it, since the title of the book is ALL ABOUT LULU but it's also bigger than that.Lulu is the narrator's siste (STEP-sister, that is) on whom he has a crush beyond crushes: he's totally in love with her. This love is returned but in complicated ways. That's the

I'm going to cheat here a little and post the same review I posted for Jonathan's novel on Amazon.com:Everyone can relate to this wonderfully quirky debut novel from Jonathan Evison. The story speaks with honesty, wistfulness, humor, and sadness to anyone who ever felt like an outcast even within their own family, anyone who remembers the thrill of finding that one person who "gets" them, anyone who felt the flush of first love and the crushing blow of that love disappearing, and to anyone who

This book was an overall pretty enjoyable read. I laughed out loud a few times at Will's strange body-building, meat-obsessed family. Not to mention his strange cast of friends: Acne Scar Joe, Immigrant Eugene, freaky school counselor, and ex-boyfriend Troy of Will's obsession: stepsister Lulu.That being said, when I finally find out the BIG secret (which was pretty easy to spot much earlier on in the book), I had a hard time seeing 1)Why was it such a big deal that it had to be kept secret, and

I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Evison's quirky, moving "The Fundamentals of Caregiving" and have read several of his books looking for the same qualities to no avail. I really thought Lulu would be the one. From the beginning, we know that Lulu has a BIG secret -- a LIFE-CHANGING secret -- a secret that is so CAPTIVATING we will turn page upon page, panting in anticipation of learning what it is. At some point, the buildup began to annoy me. I could think of no secret that would be worth all of this

Again-- lamenting the lack of the 1/2 star rating-- to put it firmly between "I liked it" and "I really liked it."I'm certainly not averse to reading books where there aren't any neat or tidy endings. In fact, some of my favorites end precisely that way-- no Disney-esque "And they lived happily ever after."But, dang ... okay, this book really depressed me.I have to admit, I read it in basically a day-- stealing moments whenever I could from my daily duties-- drawn back to my favorite reading

Evison tells the story of a young boy with a crush, on his step-sister, and how that crush evolves throughout their young lives, for better and worse. Its the story of them and their family, helmed quite vividly by a father competing for various body building trophies over the years. (The Arnold makes an appearance.) Evison handles both the boys perspective on young love and the story of the odd extended family very well. I felt I knew people a lot like the characters in the book. And Evison

There were some incredibly beautiful and thoughtful lines in this bildungsroman, which was set mostly in the 1980s. Some nostalgic moments were had by moi. Mostly, it was annoyingly repetitive and unnecessarily morose, peopled by characters I truly believed were likeable and colourful, but, the author felt compelled to present them all as unkindly, as darkly, and as bitterly as he could. I could see something sparkling in everyone beneath the deep waters of the depressing narrator, and I just