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Age of Vice: What To Do About Sunny...

Roxane Gay
Jan 24
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Sunny really could make you think he’s a poor little rich boy but no matter how frustrated he may feel in his life, he still makes such bad choices over and over and… over. I found him infuriating but, also, pitiable.

The sections from Sunny’s perspective are interspersed with articles written by Dean, a scene of Ajay in prison, the view from his new body guard, and the life story of Sunny’s kidnapper. Given that Sunny spends these sections in a haze of depression, how do these interstitials give clarity to what’s really going on in the narrative? In part 3, Sunny finally receives the approval from his father he’s been going after his whole life, and it breaks him. What do you think Sunny actually wants? Did you believe in his idealism before the crash? Or is he actually as ruthless as his father? Is he a character that, ultimately, you want to root for?

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