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Ammaniti, Niccolo. Me and You. Black Cat: Grove. Feb. 2012. c.160p. tr. from Italian by Kylee Doust. ISBN 9780802170903. pap. $14. F
In this novel by best-selling Italian author Ammaniti (I'm Not Scared; As God Commands), Lorenzo, craving solitude, lies to his parents about going with classmates on a skiing vacation to Cortina and hides out in the basement of their Rome apartment building. This falsehood pleases his mother, who is overjoyed at the acceptance of her misfit 14-year-old son by popular kids. After a day or two of sleeping late, playing video games, and eating junk food, Lorenzo is stunned when his estranged half-sister, Olivia, whom …