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Through the palpable voice of a runaway teenage girl, Musical Chairs delivers a powerful punch and ultimately inspiring portrait that transcends every parents' nightmare. With a raw terrible beauty and razor-sharp prose that often lifts the reader toward a magical dreamscape, Jen Knox not only re-creates her troubled youth, but brings her childhood self back to independent life. The author, Jen Knox, recedes, and this little skinny waif, Jenny begins to breathe in the rarefied atmoshere of a dark Salinger tale. Sometimes reminiscent of Holden Caulfield, with mascara and bubble gum, Jenny, no matter how much booze she consumes or 'dances' she performs, is always an innocent child. Vulnerable in a world of menace and mayhem,, Jenny never succumbs to a seemingly insurmountable fate. Mental illness,the great crippler is also the last great frontier. Hers is a desperate need to overcome who she is, and the intelligence of her quest to understand her rebellion. As a parent, and father, I could not understand the crime which drove her out of the house. Though emotionally vacuous, her father did not deserve that fate. Except, isn't that the ultimate expression of teenage angst? Haven't so many of us left home in all but the body?
Jen Knox has created Jenny, a tough kid out of dark streets around the glitter of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, who only bends but never breaks.She is uncompromising and brutally frank. Yet her intelligence and grit take her on an outer journey exploring inner worlds. That dynamic makes Musical Chairs a noteworthy, controversial, exceptional but disturbing work of fiction-- it is about coming of age and alienation, isolation and the need to be recognized. Usually told from a male perspective, Musical Chairs lifts gender related issues toward a more balanced presentation. The heroine here is also the author whose child within, we hope, has finally found safe passage and a happy home.


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Musical Chairs Jen Knox 9780984259427 Books Reviews

After reading many, many, in my opinion fun novels, I came by chance across Musical Chairs by Jen L. Knox. And found it truly great.

It was difficult not to realize the immense difference between her writing and the superficial tales with stratospheric promotional budgets. Books made into financially very successful ventures yet missing on everything essential Life consists of. And so, it would be foolish to compare her autobiographical novel to high-roller nonsense thrillers I and many of us are so used to. But then, such are just passing fun time and rarely much more.

Her novel is a truly great read, and in some ways a masterpiece. It is a candid insight into the everyday life of many across America. And it is much more than a candid depiction of children, teens especially, brought to life and then abandoned to their own, nonexistent resources. It is an extremely sad story about utmost cruelty of people, become parents, yet totally devoid of responsibility toward their children, leaving them to search for comfort, understanding and guidance, in their pursuit of maturity, from an everyday, often criminally irresponsible, most often inane street world.

It is very easy, in this part of the world devoid of catastrophic confrontations, to let oneself just flow with the currents, to fall into an absolutely idiotic state of indifference where strictly selfish interests rule and the failure to maintain normal family life is blamed on others.

For all these reasons, Jen's success in reemerging from the chaos, pursuing a profession and succeeding in the end, is truly admirable. This is a fantastic reading adventure and a must read for teens and, especially, for all parents.

Steven Nedelton, Author of Crossroads and The Raven Affair at [...]
Trite words such as riveting, engrossing, touching, brilliant, make us cringe when we read them in reviews. They are over-applied, by eager readers who want to help a good author. We see them, even in a crowd of other words, and certainly think them jaded. Keep them in mind though, as I tell you this.

I sat this morning to read 'Musical Chairs'; something I've intended to do for ages. Jen has been a constant name in my list of author connections, more than a year now. As we do to one another, I buried her book under a few hundred others. I have been feeling the strain of my TBR, because most of it has a deadline attached, my mind has been seizing up. I wanted something real - not fiction - and that desire brought Jen's book very quickly to the top of my list. It was 6 a.m. when I started reading. It is noon now, and I've read every word of Jen's book, amazed.

I'm savvy to some of Jen's presence on the internet. We toss banter as authors do, almost by accident, when we are at the same URLs for the same instant. But six hours after I sat with her, truly in person, I know more about her than I do some of my own family. 'Musical Chairs' becomes real and startling, moments in. My tired mind, which cannot process another zombie today, opened up to an emotional and honest experience I'm ashamed to have delayed. For a few hours, my breakfast went uneaten; my coffee chilled; the sun rose, and my dog settled elsewhere, knowing I was not getting out of my chair.

Riveting means that you cannot turn away. I could not.
Engrossing means that you will embrace the voice of the character. In this case - Jen Knox.
Touching means that you are going to be led in emotions. She certainly does that.
Brilliant, in this case I must confess a hitch. Jen remembers with a piercing clarity which I envy her. But, my own mother has a brilliant memory. Jen writes superbly, the first three words in this quartet of trites already attest to that fact.

No, here I wish to re-define Brilliant for you. It is exactly what you might guess. I chose not to say Jen's book is illustrative of an educated, ordered, purposeful text. I want it to mean, after reading with my entire heart for six hours, that her book is filled with such light. She seems to be looking forever into her own sunrise. Each dawn is reaffirming that she has begun again. Her shadows are the transitory things. Her life is illuminated. This morning - it blinded me.
Through the palpable voice of a runaway teenage girl, Musical Chairs delivers a powerful punch and ultimately inspiring portrait that transcends every parents' nightmare. With a raw terrible beauty and razor-sharp prose that often lifts the reader toward a magical dreamscape, Jen Knox not only re-creates her troubled youth, but brings her childhood self back to independent life. The author, Jen Knox, recedes, and this little skinny waif, Jenny begins to breathe in the rarefied atmoshere of a dark Salinger tale. Sometimes reminiscent of Holden Caulfield, with mascara and bubble gum, Jenny, no matter how much booze she consumes or 'dances' she performs, is always an innocent child. Vulnerable in a world of menace and mayhem,, Jenny never succumbs to a seemingly insurmountable fate. Mental illness,the great crippler is also the last great frontier. Hers is a desperate need to overcome who she is, and the intelligence of her quest to understand her rebellion. As a parent, and father, I could not understand the crime which drove her out of the house. Though emotionally vacuous, her father did not deserve that fate. Except, isn't that the ultimate expression of teenage angst? Haven't so many of us left home in all but the body?
Jen Knox has created Jenny, a tough kid out of dark streets around the glitter of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, who only bends but never breaks.She is uncompromising and brutally frank. Yet her intelligence and grit take her on an outer journey exploring inner worlds. That dynamic makes Musical Chairs a noteworthy, controversial, exceptional but disturbing work of fiction-- it is about coming of age and alienation, isolation and the need to be recognized. Usually told from a male perspective, Musical Chairs lifts gender related issues toward a more balanced presentation. The heroine here is also the author whose child within, we hope, has finally found safe passage and a happy home.