![]() ![]() ![]() It always depends on who does the telling. “Hero dotus showed that our understanding of history is never objective truth. Ali Benjamin’s technique is to tell this tale through a variety of first person interviews, scripted vignettes, text and email conversations, and first person memoir accounts from Caitlyn. ![]() Her class creates a faux reality TV contest to see who can become “the next great Paulie Fink’’ and Caitlyn is the emcee. Yet Caitlyn steps up to the new role cast upon her. ![]() (Everyone still talks about his elaborate “science project” banana peel caper.) She’s replacing a legend – the actual Paulie Fink – a notorious prankster at her school who was really the straw that stirred the drink for his 7 th grade classmates. But it takes moving from New York to Vermont and going to a quirky new school to figure that out. That’s what Caitlyn ultimately concludes about her new school. This, right here, is all history ever has been: regular people living their regular lives, making things up as they go, hoping they get it right.” ![]()
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