From: Nina Lindsay <nlindsay>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 08:03:00 -600

I just read _Fallen Angels_ for the first time a week ago, and I read
_Scorpions_ about six months ago -- I haven't had a chance to re-read it yet. But from my memories of the latter, and my impressions of the former, I was slightly disturbed by what seemed to me to be unresolved relationships between each narrator and his mother. In each book, the narrator subtley and believeably comes into a better understanding of himself, and seems to acknowledge a barrier in his relationship with his mother. But -- at least in _Fallen Angels_, the issue of this conflict seems to get dropped towards the end (I don't remember it ever being carried through in _Scorpions_ but I could very easily be wrong -- please refresh my memory!)

I realize that as many boys mature -- as do the narrators in these stories -- they do "grow away" from their mothers. But the relationship between a young African-American male and his single African-American mother seems like such an interesting and important relationship to explore -- an applicable to the lives of so many readers -- I was a little disappointed it wasn't explored further in Myers' books.

Any thoughts?


Nina Lindsay Student--School of Library & Info. Studies UW Madison nlindsay at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
Received on Mon 11 Sep 1995 09:03:00 AM CDT