With each challenge, Caitlyn struggles to understand a person she never met.but it's what she discovers about herself that most surprises her.
Now he's disappeared, and Caitlyn finds herself leading a reality-show-style competition to find the school's next great Paulie Fink.
One thing's for sure, though: The kid was totally legendary. When Caitlyn Breen begins her disorienting new life at Mitchell School-where the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh grade-it seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink.ĭepending on whom you ask, Paulie was either a hilarious class clown, a relentless troublemaker, a hapless klutz, or an evil genius. Frequently laugh-out-loud funny, the novel captures the quirks and traditions of a small community, and what it’s like to enter such a community after its social dynamics are established.In this acclaimed novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn't easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a legendary classroom prankster. Being Remembered.” Sections narrated by Caitlyn are interspersed with interviews conducted with the competition contestants, emails, and text messages (including many unanswered ones to friends back home), which makes for a breezy read and allows readers to piece together impressions of Caitlyn and of the school, just as Caitlyn forms secondhand impressions of Paulie (who, as it turns out, is a “totally ordinary shaggy-haired kid”). Eventually, she finds a role to play as the judge for a reality show–like com¬petition to crown Paulie’s successor as “someone whose official job it is to make school… memorable.” Benjamin ( The Thing About Jellyfish) explores the unreliable nature of memory and personal mythology, with some ancient Greek philosophy thrown in via a teacher who tells the class about kleos: “Renown.
Caitlyn struggles to find her place in a close-knit, offbeat rural school where she’s suddenly the odd one out. Reluctant new-kid Caitlyn finds her classmates obsessed with the question of what happened to Paulie Fink, the charismatic class clown and “disruptor” who myste¬riously hasn’t returned at the beginning of seventh grade.
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