Backseat boy is a
disturbing account of a mother’s affair with a bag boy in the local grocery
store. I have to wonder how old the girl was that’s narrating the story. If
she’s old enough to know what an affair is and understand what’s going on with
her mother why is she not doing anything? If she knows she is only going to the
store as an alibi why does she keep going? Does she have a confrontation with
her mother? Her father? Did she see the affair? She talks about the night she
thinks it started, did she walk in on them having sex? Very little is answered
or discussed in the story.
It
is hard to get to know/care about the characters. The mother is obviously not
supposed to be a sympathetic character but the narrator and her sister are and
yet we know very little about them. If she tells her mother what she doesn’t
want to hear then give an example of a time she did that. Was it about the
affair?
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