‘Mean Boys’ raises questions of life, death, and belonging
‘Mean Boys: A Personal History’By Geoffrey Makc.2024, Bloomsbury $28.99/267 pages 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.
He sometimes “never really knew where I was living,” whether it was Berlin or California, in a studio or high-end accommodations.
