![]() ![]() ![]() Yet in Whitehead's hands this place, reeking of burning sucrose, is the perfect theatre for every anxiety of puberty: monetary, digestive, racial, sexual and criminal. ![]() So Reggie throws himself on the mercy of Burger King and Ben gets a job at Jonni Waffle, a wonderful, nauseatingly evoked emporium of American dessert bilge - "the beginning of my exile from decent people". Within days of being left in charge, the two brothers have eaten all the frozen dinners they expected would sustain them. To let anything, even money worries, "interfere with Sag, your shit was seriously amiss". The place means everything to their parents, and to them. In these cherished, toiled-for houses, Ben and his city friends live summer and adolescence parallel to the rest of the world. Whitehead proves himself, among many other things, a poet of the American summer and its aspirations. ![]()
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