Alex believes they are on the cusp of witnessing some kind of metaphysical event in the sky called the “Big Shadow” - Alex does not say exactly what this will entail, though at one point the possibility of being transported to another planet is mentioned. Her only pastime during the summer of 1998 is monitoring the movement of clouds with her cousin Christopher and his imperious friend Alex.
Judy is an artistic and impressionable seventeen-year-old about to start her first semester at a post-secondary institution.
Toronto writer Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel “Big Shadow” explores teenage apathy in detail, but avoids this all too common problem by infusing the book with charming doses of quaintness and naïveté. Authors depicting the inner revolutions of boredom run the danger of exposing readers to unbearable levels of monotony.
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