After wasting the summer nights away, we'd order shakes and fries and pancakes. Stimulated by high school parties and close encounters with our crushes, we'd pool a pile of bills and coins on the table before heading back to the isolation of our cold suburban bedrooms.
The House on Mango Street provides an extra dimension to the book's central thesis that while reality can be strong, the dreams of youth can be even stronger.
In shows like Euphoria, adolescence seems worldly and mature, but observing first-year students in Dublin reveals they are still children, not fully developed.