Popularity but once again, everything goes awry. Determined to meet his father's expectations, Liam joins the AV club at his new school and actively tries to fight his natural status as Mr. Against his homophobic dad's wishes, Liam moves in with his gay, cross-dressing, trailer-dwelling uncle, Aunt Pete. A mediocre student, he constantly disappoints his dad, an angry, sometimes verbally abusive executive who kicks Liam out of the house after one too many perceived transgressions. High-school senior Liam is a talented, straight athlete who is as gorgeous as his mother, a former supermodel, and has inherited her interest in clothes: I love fashion. Like her previous novels, including the Printz Honor Book Fat Kid Rules the World (2003), Going's latest is a surprising, memorable story shaped from unlikely character bonds. Some of the characters were fun and well-written, while others felt forced or fake.an example taken to the extreme instead of a real person. But, at the end I felt like it was just okay. I like this author and this book is good, interesting, etc. On the other, being treated as a “bwana” or warrior-king can prove irresistibly seductive, and may wind up warping one’s sense of mission.This is a Gateway book for 2011-2012. On one hand, empathy can all too easily lead to sympathy, in which case any semblance of distance or objectivity is lost. This is because members of both professions are forced to straddle two slippery slopes. Instead, “going native” is purely a nonnative’s fear-or fantasy-and can pose problems for anyone relying on an anthropologist or advisor’s work. A second is to point out that from the locals’ perspective, of course, no advisor or anthropologist would ever be mistaken for a native. Clarification of this term is one goal of this chapter. but also insidious of these is that of “going native,” though for advisors “going native” has yet to be well defined.
And both are confronted by similar kinds of cross-cultural communication challenges, as well as by a host of temptations. Both must figure out how to establish rapport. Both spend long periods of time in the field, living with locals. A lthough anthropologists and military advisors may seem to make for strange bedfellows, they actually have more in common than meets the eye.
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