February 04, 2020


Butter, a review


ButterButter, by Erin Jade Lange is a young adult contemporary fiction which tells the story of an obese food-loving teenage student everybody, even himself and his teachers, calls Butter. Weird, isn't it?

As weird indeed as adolescence can be. Take this confusing and harsh period in someone's life and add to it a boy weighing more than 400 pounds; an online girlfriend who looks forward to meeting him, which he postpones once and again; a mother whose magic wand for any difficulty is cooking and then feeding him; an offensive nickname; a gang of classmates he regards as his friends but who bully him as often as possible; a passion for music; a father who ignores him; a dietician, and a friend who is losing weight easily, while gaining happiness. Season all these ingredients with a pinch of disaffection, a spoonful of lack of attention and an ounce of cowardice. What would you call this dish?

Rarely has such a complex recipe resulted in such a delicious novel. The author accurately depicts the anxiety of the main character, his inner woes and the appearance-centred society in which we are immersed. On top of that, she manages to get the reader in the shoes of the protagonist and makes you crave for reading on and on.

Butter is definitely a novel worth reading, not only to get acquainted with troubled teens and their circumstances, but also to enjoy a gripping story and a bunch of true-to-life characters.

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Quizá haya algún tesoro / muy dentro de mi entraña. / ¡Quién sabe si yo tengo / diamante en mi montaña / o tan sólo un pequeño pedazo de carbón! / Los árboles del bosque de mi isla / sois vosotros, mis versos.

Salen los niños alegres / de la escuela, / poniendo en el aire tibio / de abril canciones tiernas. / ¡Qué alegría tiene el hondo / silencio de la calleja! / Un silencio hecho pedazos / por risas de plata nueva.


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