As someone who grew up watching The Golden Girls, I love seeing elderly women as main characters. She started off fine - quirky and goofy and lovable. But it’s the character of G’ma that I found the most problematic. His G’ma’s strange behavior introduces a mystery in the first few chapters of the novel, which is an effective way to hook a reader - having the main character endlessly wonder about said mystery without actually doing anything about it for the remainder of the books is an equally effective way of losing one. Scoob at times felt like a real and modern kid, dealing with things while still trying to keep his cool, while at others he seemed too unrealistically passive. It’s a great premise (love me a road trip tale), but I felt the story just didn’t live up to its potential. Issues that cause her to act increasingly erratic and shady.⠀ G’ma wants to show Scoob places where history has been made - but also to deal with some unfinished business from her past. He just wants to get away from it all and clear his head. A trip for which they have their own motives: Scoob leaves behind serious punishment following a school suspension, and a severe father whose severity only increases after said suspension. Clean Getaway tells the story of William “Scoob” Lamar, an eleven year old Black kid, and G’ma, his white grandmother, and the road trip they embark upon across the American South.
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