A slippery trip
Geoffrey Mak Geoffrey Mak’s ‘Mean Boys’ may mess up your equilibrium, but in a good way TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | The Bookworm BookwormSez@yahoo.com Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak; c.2024, Bloomsbury; $28.99; 267 pages. This and that.
It’s how a pleasant conversation is fed — with give and take, back and forth, wandering casually and naturally, a bit of one subject easing into the next with no preamble.
It’s communication you can enjoy, like what you’ll find inside Mean Boys by Geoffrey Mak. Sometimes, a conversation ends up exactly where it started.
Take, for instance, Shakespeare’s King Lear, which leads Mak to think about his life and his inability to “cull the appropriate narratives out of nonsense … .” Part of that problem, he says, was that his living arrangements weren’t consistent.
