When you’re a self-conscious teenager and the world seems poised against you, what’s the most expedient way to become “cool?” Turn the heat on someone else, of course. Don’t stand out—join the crowd. In “The Year of 13,” Lisa Shimotakahara’s protagonist narrator does just that. It’s a two-step method, though, as we’ll discover.
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Pauline Shen 