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The New Age Camp

By: Chloe Caldwell
Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
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The New Age Camp camp depicts the clumsy awkwardness and fragile self-discovery that being a teenager is all about. When Chloe, a young woman from New York State, takes a summer job working at camp for teens in Upstate New York, she has no idea what she's in for. And maybe that's a good thing. With a humor that is by turns self-deprecating and candidly critical of the world around her, Chloe describes a summer of Reiki healing, menstrual moon cycle charts, trance dances, junk food, borrowed clothes, teen girl angst, and ultimately emotional growth. Not just for the teens in her charge, but for Chloe herself.

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I am presuming that this is a personal account of her experiences as a councillor at a summer camp for teenagers. The account is observant and refreshingly honest. It is well written and no effort to listen to. I could almost imagine her telling me this as an anecdote over a drink. Caldwell easily kept my attention from start to finish.

Narration a bit fast to my liking. Nevertheless, I have listened to this three times and will do so again.

Observant, honest and fun

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I really try to be positive in reviews or say nothing if I have nothing nice to say, but this is appears to be some full liberal, but not too liberal TERF fart sniffing.

There's a level of honesty and self-effacing that is admirable and the performance is filled with a frenetic, manic energy that fits the text well. However, this reads like a bastion of being the 'right' kind of woman, and looking into the author it seems there might also be an element of being the 'right' kind of Queer. The simple fact that thid short story goes out of its way to include a trans character purely to repeatedly misgender them and denigrate the idea of being trans is hateful and putrid, not to mention the disgusting way anyone outside the 'norm' or suffering any kind of condition is discussed.

There's an element of some these being thoughts of the time and the experience of the protagonist/ author and not views actually being expressed, but they are not presented as questionable, challenged by the text/ narrative, and there is no question about the vile way trans people are dismissed and fundamentally misunderstood in their presentation in this book.

Look, I get that extreme hippy stuff can be ridiculous and unhelpful, but frankly, I'll take any of them over some ignorant, smug, and bigoted 'one of the good Queers'.

Genuinely disgusted.

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