Shut out by kody keplinger5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() But there isn't much more insight to be had than in your average teen sex (or in this case no-sex) comedy. ![]() There are some honest, sensitive, and surprising conversations about sex and relationships, and the overall crassness (both in terms of sex and casual profanity) creates a realistic high-school environment. ![]() ![]() Keplinger has picked a hefty topic, but her characters lack the complexity to pull off a real triumph of girl power. At Hamilton High, its a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. Lissa, who is dating stereotypically oafish football player Randy, gets the other players' girlfriends to agree to the plan, and the girls bond over their experiences with the sex strike while relationships are put to the test. Author Kody Keplinger SHUT OUT M ost high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. Her modernization of Aristophanes's play, in which women withheld sex from their husbands to persuade them to end the Peloponnesian War, has high school girls using the same tactic on their boyfriends, who are involved in an escalating rivalry between the football and soccer teams. Given that Keplinger (The DUFF) is using Lysistrata as the basis for her sophomore novel, it should come as little surprise that sex is at the heart of it. ![]()
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