Roberto Faenza’s English language film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You opens in Italy this month and in the US in March at the Miami International Film Festival – hopefully in theaters everywhere soon after.
Some are calling the book that it is based on, written by Peter Cameron, a modern Catcher in the Rye, a book that is a perennial favorite in the United States. I decided to read it in anticipation of the movie, and I’m glad I did.
From the *Starred Review* from Booklist: Though he’s been accepted by Brown University, 18-year-old James isn’t sure he wants to go to college. What he really wants is to buy a nice house in a small town somewhere in the Midwest—Indiana, perhaps. In the meantime, however, he has a dull, make-work job at his thrice-married mother’s Manhattan art gallery, where he finds himself attracted to her assistant, an older man named John. In a clumsy attempt to capture John’s attention, James winds up accused of sexual harassment! A critically acclaimed author of adult fiction, Cameron makes a singularly auspicious entry into the world of YA with this beautifully conceived and written coming-of-age novel that is, at turns, funny, sad, tender, and sophisticated. James makes a memorable protagonist, touching in his inability to connect with the world but always entertaining in his first-person account of his New York environment, his fractured adolescence in ways that both teen and adult readers will savor and remember. (Cart, Michael)
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