Sticks Angelica plays with autobiography, biography, and hagiography to look at how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we create for them in our own personal dramas. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.ĭeforge’s witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre yet eerily familiar world. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school, as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist." After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, "49 years old.
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