The power of this book lies in its eloquent insistence that we are all confronting our mortality every day, whether we know it or not.
It's a movie about a high school student, after all, confronting issues — peer pressure, first love, homework, postgraduate plans — that will be familiar to adolescents and perhaps more exotic to the middle-aged.
It may be that there may have to be some kind of civil rights movement too where black women and Latina women and Asian women really focus because believe it or not, we're all confronting a lot.
There's a melodramatic edge, even something of the soap opera in the way Wood has them all confronting their problems, throwing their drinks at one another and vocalising their torment.
"I'm part of an interconnected community, and we're all confronting a lot of this together.
Even Kelly's estranged daughter felt compelled to publicly speak out against him.. "The same monster you all confronting me about is my father," Joann Kelly, who goes by the name Buku Abi, said in a long statement on Instagram stories.
