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a must have for first time readers and fans alike

Excellent summary

A beautiful story for children and parents to enjoy together

I thought the book was excellent.

Living the Magic of Sweeney

Fireworks in purgatoryAlternately funny, disgusting, horrifying and even tender at times Tacones (Spanish for "high heels") is a linked series of vingettes (cinematic, journalistic, sometimes epic, always surprising) that the describes the lives of a fabulous assortment of Toronto denizens, from the seemingly ordinary to the downright grotesque.
Here is the young trendy couple starting out in life, here the drug-addled drag queens, over there the violently sociopathic ex-con, the chillingly clueless kid-junkie parents and all the rest of the "parade of cockeyed creatures" that exist in the shadow-world of North America's big cities. There is no doubt that these characters are drawn from life, but from a kind of life that few of us ever see and that Klinck makes startingly real and (even worse) more than a little sympathetic.
Tacones exposes a world of ruined young lives, addicts, murderers, perverts, selfishness, greed all tied together by a dim thread of humanity that nobody quite understands. But that little gleam of humanity is what makes the novel understandable to the rest of us and makes us root for these already damned souls in spite of everything they do to survive.
Tacones is not like any other book I've ever read - well, maybe the shock of it is similar to the feeling that the early Beat poems and novels had on a complacent society. Still, the book is unique and well worth passing around among a group friends. A book to talk about.


A seminal, groundbreaking body of work.

Talk it out

With "sunny" and "cloudy" metaphors to convey human emotions

Teen Ink has done it again! Magnificent!But what is most important in this book is that, like the first in the series, Teen Ink 2 gives voices to the millions of teenagers who are thrown aside by all the magazines and T.V. shows that dictate who teenagers are, what they should buy, and who they should be. It's not superficial, not patronizing, and not an adult take on teen life.
Among the many fantastic characteristics about this book is the continuing growth of the nonprofit enterprise: Teenagers who want to write can always submit to the book and magazine (instructions on where to send submissions are included in the book), and many more Teen Ink books seem to be in the works.
Keep up the good work, Teen Ink!