Even in your insane way, you pretend to care. You know the thing that gets me? How you pretend to care. Likewise, the cornfield massacre is a wake up for the teens in this book. In some cases, it actually wishes us harm.
Those of us who are young, or poor, or women, non-binary, gay, those of us who aren’t white: Our government doesn’t care about us. Trump’s presidency has been a real wake up call for many of us in America. Granted Trump’s government haven’t dressed up like clowns and actually slaughtered large groups of people, but they are known for silencing those they see as “undesirable” in ways, such as the internment camps for immigrants at the border or in the support of killer cops, that are increasingly deadly. And the whole time you know…You know where it’s all leading. Drawing a new line in the sand while nobody else is watching, then wiping away the old one. I mean, we didn’t say it right away like that…You tell people they’re right, tell ’em what they want to hear, you listen…but then the whole time you’re doing that listening, you’re pushing the boundaries forward. He adds later:īut convincing the town that we needed to cull was not as hard as you’d think. Like Trump, the sheriff also uses the people of his town’s fears and prejudices to get them to go along with his plans.
“ I’ve expressed this to some of you, but I think that there may soon come a time when the powers of law don’t go far enough to keep Kettle Springs the town we know and love,” spouts the Trumpian sheriff. Kettle Springs’ generational clashes make it a violent, admittedly dramatized microcosm of the real world we’re currently living in. Early in the book, Quinn sees a flier: “Make Kettle Springs Great Again.” The adults and kids of this town are thoroughly squared off, and things get ugly. The political world specifically: the clash between younger progressives and older conservatives. One really interesting aspect of Cesare’s book is its reflection of the world today. Unfortunately, for Quinn and her new friends, that clown isn’t acting alone… These tensions come to a head at a high school party when a killer clown begins picking off the teens one by one. Quinn quickly begins making friends but also notices the tensions in the town between the adults and the teens. High school senior Quinn has just moved to Kettle Springs with her father, and they’re looking for a fresh start. So did it meet all expectations? It exceeded them on every level.
I dived into it as soon as it arrived on my doorstep. Oh my gosh I was so excited for this one! I found out about Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare early in the year and have been anxiously awaiting its release.
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