Like the Red Panda (Harvest Book)
by Andrea Seigel

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• ISBN13: 9780156030243
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Book Reviews of Like the Red Panda (Harvest Book)

Book Review: Fascinating Intellectual Journey! A Must Read!
Summary: 5 Stars

More than just a tale of disenchanted youth and teenage angst, this novel tends to veer into the profoundly philosophical realms of the (rare) deeply intellectual teenage mind. While Stella's peers are contemplating how to study for their upcoming final exams, Stella is pondering "just how useless perspective is, since it can always change." Stella approaches these themes with a dark humor and wry wit that is extraordinarily enticing, and will have the reader turning page after page to see what she has to say next.

Andrea Seigel has an amazing way with words. She can be humorous, cynical, sarcastic, and contemplative all at the same time. The beautiful prose with which this book is written can be both enthrallingly poetic and caustically blunt and honest simultaneously. Stella is definitely a character that is easy to relate to, and that makes this book highly effective on a personal level. You, the reader, will find yourself travelling right there with Stella on her emotional roller coaster ride towards indifference, and you'll cherish every minute (page) of it and be saddened when it ends.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever felt dispassionate about his or her existence, as though there seems to be something lacking. Or to anyone who has ever felt alienated from the rest of their peers, or even society (which is probably everyone at some point in time). Anyone who "know[s] what it's like to surprise yourself with apathy in the afternoon when you woke up in the morning believing you cared." How about just everyone in general? If you can read at all, then you should pick this book up! This is definitely a novel I can see myself re-reading in the future, which I don't often do. Furthermore, I anxiously await anything else Andrea Seigel puts out. This is a great new author who demands attention!

Summary of Like the Red Panda (Harvest Book)

Like the Red Panda enjoys its greatest success when Stella is commenting on the people around her. Her wry observations about her cranky old grandfather, her pot-smoking classmates in AP English, and her brilliant, unmotivated drug-dealing ex-boyfriend paint an equally amusing and insightful portrait of suburban life in America. When describing the temple-going practices of her jumpy and awkward foster parents, Stella explains that services are held on Sunday morning instead of Saturday, "mostly so everyone could be on the same worship schedule as their Christian friends. This benefited cross-religion plan-making on the weekends." When Seigel strays from witty observations like these, the novel has a tendency to lose its quirky appeal and simply becomes a tale of disenchanted youth. Thankfully, Like the Red Panda delivers more laughs than tears, and rewards readers with a unique blend of one-part teenage angst mixed with two-parts comedic wit. --Gisele Toueg

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