![]() ![]() Like Ant Colony and First Year Healthy, Big Kids is a testimony to the harshness and beauty of being alive. Eerie and perfectly paced, Michael DeForge's Big Kids muses on the complicated, and often contradictory, feelings people struggle with in adolescence, the choices we make to fit in, and the ways we survive times of change. And slowly, the boy begins to change, too. ![]() ![]() Instead, April and the boy hang out with her friends, a bunch of highly evolved big kids who spend their days at the campus swimming pool. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behaviour. The boys own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behavior. She's a college student: mysterious and cool, she quickly takes a shine to the boy. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school, as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. ![]() Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. ![]()
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