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Gr 10 Up–Astrid Jones is a high-school senior in a small, Pennsylvania town. She’s a top student and loves philosophy. (She gives Socrates a first name–Frank.) Her favorite pastime is to lie on the picnic table she and her father built in the backyard and send her love to passengers in the airplanes as they pass overhead. The teen sends her love off to strangers, because she has no use for it at home. She has an agoraphobic, type-A mother who wears business suits and heels when she works from home. While emotionally unavailable t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Astrid would be the quintessential Q-for-Questioning girl in her high school's LGBTQ support group if her small-town, small-minded school had such a thing -- and the gay question is only one of many weighing her down. When her humanities teacher explains that learning the Socratic method "will be a time of asking questions and not rushing to answer them…a time of thinking and not knowing," Astrid muses, "Perfect for me…I am the not knowing queen." Socrates himself starts making periodic appearances, visible only to Astrid (who calls him Frank). Fr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Astrid would be the quintessential Q-for-Questioning girl in her high school's LGBTQ support group <i>if</i> her small-town school had such ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More