![]() Adults, by contrast, while certainly capable of dealing with references to forced female circumcision and cunnilingus, are not likely to take seriously the “create your own ending” format. A book in which the teenage, sexually promiscuous narrator is beaten half-unconscious by her high-school boyfriend is presumably not intended for young readers. ![]() Whether that innovation leads anywhere worth going is debatable. ![]() The author breaks new ground by taking an unsophisticated, gimmicky form and injecting it with a whopping dosage of X-rated content. One major difference, however, is that McElhatton’s debut confronts such decidedly mature dilemmas as whether or not to remain the houseguest of Alouette, née Rashid, a London-based Indian transvestite privy to the ways of the bordello and even the “gloryhole.” Those fondly remembered children’s mysteries never posited a protagonist on a heroin-peddling caravan, rocketing around Western Europe and leaving a trail of overdosed corpses in the rearview mirror. ![]() An adult Choose Your Own Adventure from public-radio producer McElhatton.Īs in that vintage children’s series, the protagonist-you-is offered many choices en route to 150 different endings. ![]()
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