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    Fum

    Written by Adam Rapp

    Narrated by Lauren Ezzo

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    About this audiobook

    What is it like to be a giant? Meet Corinthia Bledsoe, a seven-foot tall high-school junior who can predict the future.

    Over seven feet tall and with a newfound ability to sense future events, Corinthia Bledsoe is far more than just another Midwestern high-school junior; she's a force of nature. When she predicts with terrifying accuracy the outcome of a tornado that will hit her high school, leaving a cow standing midcourt in the Lugo Memorial field house, Corinthia finds herself at the epicenter of another kind of storm entirely. And as things get stranger and stranger—both in her small town and her own home—lives start to intersect in ways even Corinthia can't foresee.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 13, 2018
    ISBN9781543687293
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    Adam Rapp

    Adam Rapp is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director, as well as a novelist, filmmaker, actor, and musician. His play The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois had its world première last month at South Coast Repertory. His other plays include Red Light Winter (Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association, a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best New Play, two OBIE Awards, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize), Blackbird, The Metal Children, Finer Noble Gases, Through The Yellow Hour, The Hallway Trilogy, Nocturne, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Faster, Gompers, Essential Self-Defense, American Slingo, and Kindness. For film, he wrote the screenplay for Winter Passing; and recently directed Loitering with Intent. Rapp has been the recipient of the 1999 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting, a 2000 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 2001 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and Boston’s Elliot Norton Award; and was short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, received the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a 2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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    • 3/5
      I found this book delightful; the reviews that pan it are too harsh. I was quickly drawn into Corinthia's plight and found the story very engaging. Yes, there were some parts where the kids in her school were mean to her--but that was part of the poignancy. Yes, I found that there were questions I still wanted the answers to when I finished the book, but they simply left me waiting for the sequel.
    • 2/5
      This book went from crazy to bizarre in no time flat. It was well written but it seemed that it was written for adults instead of it's younger intended audience. A seven foot giantess is having a hard time fitting into her school. Literally and physically. They even had to have a second bathroom built for her after she broke two normal sized toilets. One day she starts to have visions of calamities that will befall her small town. One by one they start to come true but they come with a cost, she is suspended from school, feared by most, and disdained by her mother. There are a few side stories that don't mesh well with the plot or seemingly have anything to do with it. There is her favorite author, an older ex-convict she befriends, and the random disappearance of her brother. This story has charm but it's all over the map for me. The end was also a little startling.
    • 3/5
      Corinthia is a giant. That was hard enough on her, her fellow students and her family, especially her mother. Suddenly, she becomes a giant who can foresee the future. After she is ignored when predicting devastating tornadoes, her life and the way it intersects with everyone in her small town changes.
    • 3/5
      Well, in one hand i really liked this book. In the other hand....Quirky, cute, a fun read. However, there was a lot left out as far as unanswered questions and story lines that just sort of dropped off. Maybe if there is a part 2 some things will be answered but for now i am only giving 3 stars because there was just to much that was left unanswered
    • 3/5
      Corinthia is just as her name suggests - a solid seven foot tall column. She has had to deal with breaking everything in sight and never fitting in - clothes, furniture or groups of kids at her high school. When she suddenly starts having fits and predicting strange events happening in the town she becomes even more of a freak show than before. Mom is a mess, her brother has gone missing and her poor dad is doing everything in his power to hold it together. Being a teenager is hard enough but being 7 foot tall almost 300 pound female teen is impossible. I loved her spirit but was saddened by the judgement she faced by everyone with the exception of her two friends. This book will resonate with teens but adults could learn a bit about acceptance too. Thanks to the publisher for the advance copy.
    • 1/5
      Corinthia Bledsoe is a teenage giant who discovers she can predict certain events, such as tornadoes hitting the high school and geese destroying the football field. (Why either of these events might have happened is not addressed.) Billy Ball is an awkward freshman with flatulence problems and a fixation on Native American culture. Their paths cross exactly once, an event which seems to have almost no impact on either of them. Corinthia's brother Channing, star football player, goes missing for no reason. Corinthia's mother cannot handle having a giant for a daughter. Corinthia's father seems unsurprised to learn of his daughter's soothsaying abilities but this is not explored. There are wolves prowling the outskirts of town for some reason. The whole thing feels kind of slapped together. None of the major events seem to have any impact on any of the characters (except Channing's disappearance on his mother), and none of the characters change or grow in the slightest over the course of the book. Basically it's just a weird series of scenes that left me wondering why the author felt a need to share them. Not recommended.Side note: Corinthia is described as being 7'4" and 287 pounds, yet much is made of her tendency to break toilets and the need to reinforce her chair legs with steel. Which makes me wonder what kind of toothpick chairs and teacup china toilets this town has to be crushed by someone under 300 pounds. I've known people in excess of 400 pounds use public toilets without incident. I know it's a minor detail, but it really jumped out at me.
    • 2/5
      Corinthia Bledsoe is a giantess. At over 7 feet tall and just a junior in high school, you can imagine her life is filled with questions, odd-looks, and loneliness. But, it is also filled with bullies, a mother who is not only indifferent, but oddly distanced from her daughter, and visions. Yes, that’s right, visions. She see calamities that are about to happen and although she warns people, they don’t take her seriously at first. Corinthia is highly intelligent, yet she doesn’t have a path in life. That is until some events in her life direct her on a path: she meets an ex-con who is struggling with pancreatic cancer, a beloved and adored brother who goes mysteriously missing, and a road trip to the northern reaches of Wisconsin that combine to turn her life towards her life’s mission. Fum is filled with quirky, outlandish characters and almost inconceivable situations (which is what I normally love about Adam Rapp’s work), but so many questions are left unanswered that really don’t contribute to the overall story that I feel cheated. What purpose did Dave-the-journal serve? What really happened to Marlene? Where is Channing? And, what is up with the wolves? Too many storylines and not enough connections. Thank you to LibraryThing Early Reviewers, Candlewick Press, and Adam Rapp for this ARC.
    • 2/5
      Mean-spirited and depressing for the sake of being depressing. Adam Rapp has written far better novels—check out Punkzilla or The Children and the Wolves instead, or if you want another story of a bizarre town mistreating a disabled person that actually treats its characters with respect, try Marieke Nijkamp's Before I Let Go.
    • 5/5
      Thicker than previous Rapp books but flowed fast. Enjoyed the characters and found them bitter sweet. Enjoyed it so much that I didn't want it to end. Not for those into cookie cutter YA lit.