![]() Check out Bannatyne’s author’s note for more on setting, character, and astral projection. ![]() Bannatyne’s corporeal writing is honest and strong Cassie inhabits her human body, and wishes to escape her human body, with intention. ![]() The setting of 1980’s rural Pennsylvania and New York contributes to the tone of isolation. Bannatyne uses allusion in the form of a found book on astral projection to explore Cassie’s pregnancy, her experience in her female body and her desire to leave that body-this is not an overly familiar teen pregnancy story. ![]() Cassie, Gail, and Carl, the teenagers, each feel supremely real. In “The Study and Practice of Astral Projection,” Lesley Bannatyne achieves a complex and authentic teen voice, capturing in protagonist Cassie the sense of entrapment and utter lack of agency that define the teenage condition (“She understood she was no longer a girl that did things she had become a girl that things happened to”). ![]()
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