it's no longer some whispered thing in the hallway, it has a permanence, there's a trail. The difference is adults now have a record of it. Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body. I think the same kind of bullying and manipulation happens now with kids that happened back when you and I were teenagers. The story is set in 1991 and I wanted that to be a little bit representative of what we face today with kids being bullied and called names on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, you know any kind of social media that could be used as a blunt instrument in the wrong hands and I think this is the analog version of that. You know? And the friend who takes the punch, who takes the blame, who absorbs the insult when they know you can't take anymore - those are priceless friendships and I wanted to sort of pay tribute to that in this story and to do that I had to put the kids through some really bad stuff. The first line reads, 'The kid had taken a lot of punishment over the years, so he had much to give back.' There is no real sense of good people and bad people, only hurt people and the way they choose to channel their pain. Set in Pittsburgh, 1991, before the dawn of. Breznicans writing is insightful and powerful. Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Official Timeline Brutal Youth: A Novel. The people who are with you when you are kind of in that embryonic stage of being a teenager, figuring out who you are, I think those are the people who make a difference for you and you never forget them. Anthony Breznican reminds you just how mean they can be with his debut novel, Brutal Youth. See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Breznican, Anthony. On powerful bonds between victims of bullying

It's a way of saying, 'I am not at the bottom of the totem pole, I am able to climb up because I am putting a foot on your neck.'

There is a lot of ways that people who are powerless assert dominance over each other.

Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican