{"id":46,"date":"2019-01-24T18:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2019-12-10T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:15:28","slug":"shapes-the-sunlight-takes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?page_id=46","title":{"rendered":"Shapes the Sunlight Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Shapes the Sunlight Takes<\/a>, 15-year-old Lexie’s crush on senior beauty Mirielle triggers prophetic visions with apocalyptic consequences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wagner\u2019s novel does what all good novels should do: it made me think<\/em>
about the way that I think\u2026. an odd, intimate story about the messy <\/em>
and complicated relationship between reality and fantasy.<\/em>
\u2013 Theo Ellsworth; THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an attention to feelings and language that I\u2019m inclined to<\/em>
describe as enviable\u2026. Wagner remembers what it\u2019s like to be a<\/em>
teenage lesbian and does the dirty work of reminding the rest of us.<\/em>
\u2013 Molly Laich; MISSOULA INDEPENDENT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNine million different shapes for the sunlight to take. Nine million different ways light slows itself down to experience time.\u201d Lexie, a 15 year old outcast, believes she can see the future. When her best friend\u2019s dropout brother Derwin rides back into town, Lexie has a vision that he and her senior crush, Mirielle, are destined to have a child who will grow up to save the world. The problem is, Mirielle and Derwin hate each other. But Lexie believes it\u2019s up to her to bring them together, if only for one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n